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Web Services and Decoupled Drupal

Testing Resources with cURL

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    with Joe Shindelar
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    In this lesson, we're going to look at using the cURL,
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    or c URL, command line application to interact with our web services.
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    Tools like cURL give us additional options above and beyond what we
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    can type into the address bar of our browser, which make it
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    easy to control all of the components of the request we're
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    making of our web services, including things like setting HTTP
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    headers and any additional information the endpoint needs
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    to interpret the request.
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    Using cURL will also allow us to create basic post requests

Building Web Services with Drupal 7

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Testing Resources with cURL

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12 minutes 51 seconds // Drupal 7 // HDCC //

While cURL may not be the simplest way to interact with a REST API it is the most ubiquitous and the one that is most often referenced in documentation through the web. So to ensure that students have at least a baseline of understanding, and will know how to read the documentation in the future, in this lesson Joe takes a quick look at how to test our API with cURL by retrieving, and creating data.

Example Commands:

`curl http://localhost/demos/services-7x/docroot/api/v1/node/1`

`curl --data '{"title":"hello world!","type":"page"}' --header "Content-Type:application/json" http://localhost/demos/services-7x/docroot/api/v1/node`

Additional resources: 

cURL Website

cURL Scripting Documentation