This module’s static methods are the entry point for using the REST client.
# GET xml = RestClient.get 'http://example.com/resource' jpg = RestClient.get 'http://example.com/resource', :accept => 'image/jpg' # authentication and SSL RestClient.get 'https://user:password@example.com/private/resource' # POST or PUT with a hash sends parameters as a urlencoded form body RestClient.post 'http://example.com/resource', :param1 => 'one' # nest hash parameters RestClient.post 'http://example.com/resource', :nested => { :param1 => 'one' } # POST and PUT with raw payloads RestClient.post 'http://example.com/resource', 'the post body', :content_type => 'text/plain' RestClient.post 'http://example.com/resource.xml', xml_doc RestClient.put 'http://example.com/resource.pdf', File.read('my.pdf'), :content_type => 'application/pdf' # DELETE RestClient.delete 'http://example.com/resource' # retreive the response http code and headers res = RestClient.get 'http://example.com/some.jpg' res.code # => 200 res.headers[:content_type] # => 'image/jpg' # HEAD RestClient.head('http://example.com').headers
To use with a proxy, just set ::proxy to the proper http proxy:
RestClient.proxy = "http://proxy.example.com/"
Or inherit the proxy from the environment:
RestClient.proxy = ENV['http_proxy']
For live tests of RestClient, try using rest-test.heroku.com, which echoes back information about the rest call:
>> RestClient.put 'http://rest-test.heroku.com/resource', :foo => 'baz' => "PUT http://rest-test.heroku.com/resource with a 7 byte payload, content type application/x-www-form-urlencoded {\"foo\"=>\"baz\"}"
Add a Proc to be called before each request in executed. The proc parameters will be the http request and the request params.
# File lib/restclient.rb, line 161 def self.add_before_execution_proc &proc @@before_execution_procs << proc end
Create a log that respond to << like a logger param can be ‘stdout’, ‘stderr’, a string (then we will log to that file) or a logger (then we return it)
# File lib/restclient.rb, line 114 def self.create_log param if param if param.is_a? String if param == 'stdout' stdout_logger = Class.new do def << obj STDOUT.puts obj end end stdout_logger.new elsif param == 'stderr' stderr_logger = Class.new do def << obj STDERR.puts obj end end stderr_logger.new else file_logger = Class.new do attr_writer :target_file def << obj File.open(@target_file, 'a') { |f| f.puts obj } end end logger = file_logger.new logger.target_file = param logger end else param end end end
# File lib/restclient.rb, line 83 def self.delete(url, headers={}, &block) Request.execute(:method => :delete, :url => url, :headers => headers, &block) end
# File lib/restclient.rb, line 67 def self.get(url, headers={}, &block) Request.execute(:method => :get, :url => url, :headers => headers, &block) end
# File lib/restclient.rb, line 87 def self.head(url, headers={}, &block) Request.execute(:method => :head, :url => url, :headers => headers, &block) end
Setup the log for RestClient calls. Value should be a logger but can can be stdout, stderr, or a filename. You can also configure logging by the environment variable RESTCLIENT_LOG.
# File lib/restclient.rb, line 102 def self.log= log @@log = create_log log end
# File lib/restclient.rb, line 91 def self.options(url, headers={}, &block) Request.execute(:method => :options, :url => url, :headers => headers, &block) end
# File lib/restclient.rb, line 75 def self.patch(url, payload, headers={}, &block) Request.execute(:method => :patch, :url => url, :payload => payload, :headers => headers, &block) end
# File lib/restclient.rb, line 71 def self.post(url, payload, headers={}, &block) Request.execute(:method => :post, :url => url, :payload => payload, :headers => headers, &block) end
# File lib/restclient.rb, line 79 def self.put(url, payload, headers={}, &block) Request.execute(:method => :put, :url => url, :payload => payload, :headers => headers, &block) end
Reset the procs to be called before each request is executed.
# File lib/restclient.rb, line 166 def self.reset_before_execution_procs @@before_execution_procs = [] end
# File lib/restclient.rb, line 106 def self.version version_path = File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/../VERSION" return File.read(version_path).chomp if File.file?(version_path) "0.0.0" end
# File lib/restclient.rb, line 119 def << obj STDOUT.puts obj end