Dynamic update Label with response from RestAPI like ajax in tkinter - ajax

I am writing a tkinter app, which will be client for Web Application . I need a Label field, which need to dynamically updated from the response from a Rest API provided by the Web Application.
The Rest API call should be asynchronous and it should be continously polling the RESTAPI and when ever the value changes, the Label Value should change. (Like Ajax call in Web Application)
I have some other buttton and all in tha app.
I am able to find a solution for the same. Request to provide a solution. I am stuck in the development because of the same.

You can use
label.config(text="desired text from response") from inside a function which polls the desired endpoint and extracts the appropriate text. The call will need to be in a function kicked off in a thread to not block the GUI.

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So basically I have a Spring Rest Controller that returns an object. I call the method from my JS file to retrieve data and it works great. I know I can hide certain data and stuff but is there a way that I can hide the data showing in the browser. What I mean by this is that when I call the method from my browser and not the js file it shows a blank html page with the JSON output of the object. I would like to hide it from the browser view.
Browser is actually the one who is sending the request for you. It adds request headers, compression etc on your behalf so their is no way you can hide your payload from browser. That's the way web work, if you want some essential details not to be read when response packets travel either encode-decode or encrypt-decrypt your response and use HTTPS.

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I just started studying Ajax and I totally have not idea what AJAX is. What is the difference between asynchronous and synchronous request? I would like to seek a very simple example demonstrating their differences.
AJAX short for Asynchronous JavaScript And XML is a programming language. It typically involves sending HTTP requests from client to server and processing the server's response, without reloading the entire page. This process is asynchronous. Comparing to synchronous request which blocks the client until operation completes, asynchronous HTTP is more efficient and user-friendly.
Take very simple example, when you are signing up on a commercial website, you can know whether your username is available or not once you finish typing the name. If the username was used already, the website will give you a reminder that your username is used on the same web page. This is the application of AJAX, so you don't need to complete the whole form and click the submit button to know that your username is not available.
AJAX uses two components for request process and display:
 A browser built-in XMLHttpRequest object (to request data from a web server)
 JavaScript and HTML DOM (to display or use the data)
It begins with an event occurs in a web page, such as a button is clicked. Then an XMLHttpRequest object is created by JavaScript, followed by sending a request to a web server. Once the web server receives the request, it will process it and send a response back to the web page. Then the webpage utilizes JavaScript to perform update of the web page without reloading the whole page.
AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript And XML
Ajax main purpose is the loading data from the server without refreshing the web page
It's works in the background thread without interrupting UI thread
AJAX allows web pages to be updated asynchronously by exchanging data with a web server behind the scenes. This means that it is possible to update parts of a web page, without reloading the whole page.
A browser built-in XMLHttpRequest object which is used to request data from a web server
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when you are filling any kind of online form that time observe one thing there is option for country,state,district.
In this country drop down initially filled with data but state and district's are empty.
when you select a country like India then Asynchronous call goes to server and fetch the data of state drop down respective to selected country and so on.
when AJAX request fetching the data for the state drop down you are eligible to work with other parts of the form.

Where do AJAX requests in an MVC application enter the server side code initially?

To keep it simple I have a feedback form on my website. Whether or not the following is best practice is moot as I'm interested in the way this works. The customer can fill out their name, email address and reason for feedback on the form. This is then posted via AJAX to a server side function called SendFeedback. I am using .NET MVC4 and the SendFeedback method simply returns a true or false string. However I was testing out sending scripts through it to check out the security of the form and noticed that when I attempted to send through HTML tags or javascript that the SendFeedback method wasn't being invoked at all and instead my custom error page was being sent back to the client side AJAX response (if I sent though standard text, the SendFeedback method was being invoked as expected). Where is the first place that AJAX data is sent before it is passed into the server side method I am calling from the client? Is there any way to set a breakpoint here so I can examine what is going on?
This is part of an ASP.NET feature called request validaiton which is turned on by default. And which executes in ASP.NET handler before your code. If you desire, this feature can be turned off in web.config, but I would strongly advise against it.
More information on request validation can be found in MSDN.

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i have the following problem:
i need to send some custom info with every request made by a WebBrowser control. For example one of the infos is the used app version.
Now i have already read here that it is impossible to set custom headers for a WebBrowser control.
I have already tried to intercept all requests and perform them on my own with a WebClient (or HttpWebRequest). It partially works but is very buggy and often throws errors.
Any other ideas how to send the custom infos with every request that is made by the WebBrowser control?
Is the web server you are interacting with your own? Could you just add a query string parameter for all the data you want? Something like
http://yourwebsite/YourPage.aspx?version=2
Then you'd be able to process it on the server, either during that request in the aspx page, or via the logfiles for the web server.
I suspect that as you can't modify the content that gets sent directly from the WebBrowser and that intercepting every call and acting as a proxy for every request, while still maintaining all browser functionality may be too cumbersome.
Instead I'd suggest sending an additional request with just the additional information you want to record every time you make a request.
That could lead to a lot of overhead so it might be easier to send this once and then pass a hash of it, or some other identifying key to the webpage (as a querystring parameter) on the first request so it can reconcile the 2 pieces of information. Assuming that you are in control of the web server you could then have the web server set that hash/key as a cookie so it would be passed again with subsequent request from the control.

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Firstly, I have to admit I am new to Magento and PHP. I am writing the configuration for my custom module. I would like to allow entry of some information, then send that information to a servlet on my web server where it is processed and a response returned and displayed in the configuration gui in a read-only field.
I am getting my guidance from various web articles and by looking at other modules' code. A module that does something similar is the PayPal module. However, it brings up a new browser window where the user logs in and enters their details. I just want to send the data gathered and wait for the response.
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I guess what I should be doing is when the user clicks the button, the request including the data they have entered in the other fields, is sent to the Magento server, and the AJAX call to my web site is made from there? Or perhaps my approach is completely wrong and there is a more appropriate way to achieve this?
Thank you.
You're right about the same origin policy. The best approach here would be to have the button trigger an ajax call to a local magento based controller, which itself uses curl or some other http request library to forward on a request to your remote servlet and process the feedback.
Try searching here "JSONP" or google the same thing. Dependent of javascript library you are using there are pre-made components/plugins to achieve what you are after.

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