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Today might be small and common finding, but since it took me the time for again and required bit research so this article 🙂

Background : In one of my Power Automate I need to use “Invoke an HTTP request” action and based on the return status code I need to send an email either success or failure.

Invoke an HTTP Request action :

• This action invokes an HTTP end point.
• We need HTTP with Azure AD connector as

• HTTP with Azure AD connector allows us get the resources from various web services using Azure Active Directory authentication
• To use HTTP with Azure AD connector we will require Power Automate premium license
• Invoke an HTTP Request action requires following parameters:
  • Method : One of the HTTP verb – POST, GET, DELETE, PUT, PATCH
  • URL of the request : Full relative URL of the resource. Ex. : To get all Groups we have Microsoft Graph REST API – https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/
  • Body of the request : Body of the request / parameters if any

Example :

• For demo purpose lets create a simple flow, we will trigger this flow manually
• We will fetch all the groups using Microsoft Graph REST API – https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/
• From connector “HTTP with Azure AD“, add action “Invoke an HTTP request” as shown in below fig

• Specify following required details:
  • Method – Get
  • URL of the request – https://graph.mictosoft.com/v1.0/groups/

• We are ready to do first test run
• We will test it manually
• Click on “Test Flow” from right side pane and select option “Manually” as shown in below Fig

• In the right side pane we will get the details like connection as shown in below Fig

• Lets check the output of the action
• In output we will get
  • statusCode – here 200 for success
  • headers details
  • body – having list of groups to which current account has the access

• so till here all is OK 🙂
• Now based on “statusCode” we need to send an email either success or failure
• so we need to get the “statusCode” and we will store in a variable
• Lets add new action “Initialize variable” as shown in below Fig

• Here variable name is – “StatusCode” as shown in below Fig
• We need to store the “statusCode” from the output of the action “Invoke HTTP request” in the “StatusCode” variable as shown in below Fig

• We will use “outputs” expression to read the “statusCode” from the output of action “Invoke HTTP request” an in below code snippet

outputs('Get_all_Groups')?['statusCode']

• Here, in “outputs” expression ‘Get_all_Groups’ is the action name which we renamed from “Invoke HTTP request” to “Get all Groups”

• Once we have “statusCode” we are ready to check the condition and send email as shown in below Fig

• So in this way based on the “statusCode” returned from “Invoke HTTP request” action we can execute the respective actions 🙂

I’ll stop here today 🙂

We have very good series on Power Automate – https://knowledge-junction.in/?s=power+automate OR https://knowledge-junction.in/?s=power+platform

We have very good series Microsoft Graph please have a look – https://knowledge-junction.in/?s=Microsoft+Graph

References:

• HTTP with Azure AD
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/webcontents/#invoke-an-http-request

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