Warren it's also worth mentioning more about the umbRequestHelper which wraps the $http promises and does proper error checking on results such as overlaying the ysod display when in debug mode if your request throws a 500 result.

for example when we call a service URL we might use:

return umbRequestHelper.resourcePromise(
    $http.post(umbRequestHelper.getApiUrl("contentApiBaseUrl", "PostSort"),
        {
            parentId: args.parentId,
            idSortOrder: args.sortedIds
        }),
    'Failed to sort content');

There's documentation about it too:

http://umbraco.github.io/Belle/#/tutorials/using-promises-resources http://umbraco.github.io/Belle/#/api/umbraco.services.umbRequestHelper

Hi Shannon,
Trying to get the example in the docs running but not having much luck.

So on my ApplicationStarted event I have

//Umbraco JS Server Variables - To Register WebAPI Route URLs
ServerVariablesParser.Parsing = Parsing;

And the associated void to add the example keys on the docs

private void Parsing(object sender, Dictionary<string, object> dictionary)
{
    //add stuff to the dictionary, preferably under your own custom section such as:
    dictionary.Add("myPackage", new Dictionary<string, object>
    {
        {"mySetting1", "blah"},
        {"mySetting2", "another value"}
    });
}

I have stepped through the Parsing void never seems to fire, so hence they keys never get added. I am running 7.0.2 from NuGet and I am not getting any build or compilation errors, so I am unsure what I am doing wrong.

Thanks,
Warren :)

Well, turns out there are 2 things wrong :( The first one is easy:

You are not listing to the event properly, this is what you have:

ServerVariablesParser.Parsing = Parsing;

You need this:

ServerVariablesParser.Parsing += Parsing;

The second one is that it shouldn't let you have done that in the first place! And that is my fault, turns out I forgot to add the actual 'event' keyword to this delegate... lol, that's really dumb on my part!

I'll fix that up for 7.0.3 but I think just adding the + in your code might actually work, which is very strange since it's actually not declared as an event in c# :P

So one question for this: Wanted to try it but the Url.GetUmbracoApiServiceBaseUrl isn't found at all. Which using statement do i need when i want to use that method when the applications starts to register my urls to the servervariables?

Ok found it. You need the Umbraco.Web Namespace

For my own reference & for anyone else coming across this thread I have typed up a blog post on why you want to use this & bhow easy it is to do:

http://creativewebspecialist.co.uk/2014/06/23/what-on-earth-is-umbraco-servervariables-parsing/

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