Custom endpoint for Sugar REST API, uses CURL to interact with external web service.

StockApi.php

<?php

	/* Author: Angel Magaña -- cheleguanaco@cheleguanaco.com
	*  File: ./custom/modules/Accounts/clients/base/api/StockApi.php
	*	
	*  Custom Sugar REST API endpoint demonstrating use of CURL to 
	*  interact with an external web service.
	*
	*  Useful for circumventing XSS issues one may experience when calling
	*  a web service via JavaScript (e.g. Sidecar controller)
	*/

//Class name should match filename
class StockApi extends SugarApi {

    //This method must be defined in all custom endpoints
    public function registerApiRest() {
        return array(
            'getStockData' => array(
                'reqType' => 'GET', //The type of web requests this code responds to
                'path' => array('ticker','?'),
                'pathVars' => array('','symbol'),
                'method' => 'getStockData', //The PHP method that will execute for the response
                'shortHelp' => 'This method retrieves stock data',
                'longHelp' => '',
            )
        );
    }
    
    //This is the method that executes when the endpoint is invoked
    public function getStockData($api, $args)
    {
    	$symbol = $args['symbol'];	
    
    	$url = 'http://dev.markitondemand.com/Api/v2/Quote/json?symbol=' . $symbol;
	
		//cURL Request
		$cu = curl_init();
		
		curl_setopt($cu, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
		curl_setopt($cu, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
		curl_setopt($cu, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
	
		$result = curl_exec($cu);
		
		curl_close($cu);
    	
    	return $result;
    }
}

?>

You must execute a "Quick Repair and Rebuild" within your instance in order for the above code to apply.

The resulting endpoint would be:

GET /rest/v10/ticker/:symbol

Where :symbol represents the ticker symbol to query.