Getting ready

You need to have your AL development sandbox ready to go. I'll mention it again, but it's recommended that you use a Business Central online sandbox for the recipes in this chapter. Any of the additional deployment types may require further setup and configuration that are beyond the scope of the recipe.

Make sure that you've downloaded ch7-start.zip and have extracted the contents to your machine, overwriting your existing Television Show project.

In this recipe, we're working with the scenario of achieving the ability to download episodic information about the episodes of a given television show.

To achieve this, we'll connect to a free API provided by TV Maze (https://www.tvmaze.com/api), and download the information to a new table named Television Show Episode. The information will be accessible from Television Show Card.

For the purposes of this recipe, the new objects have been created and hooked up. The only thing left to do is to create the function to connect to the API and download the television show episode data.