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Example from RESTful Web APIs [http://restfulwebapis.org/ytiwpi.html]

EiffelWeb code for the examples in O'Reilly's "RESTful Web APIs".

You Type It, We Post It

/YouTypeIt/ A microblogging website with a programmable Collection+JSON API

WebSite, Programmable API URIs

http/localhost:8888 Microblogging web site
http/localhost:8888/api Collection+JSON API

Using the Collection+JSON API

To test the programmable API you can use an HTTP client (curl for example) or Postman [https://www.getpostman.com/]

In the following image we show how to access the root of the programable API. GET http://localhost:8888/api as a response we get a response with Collection+JSON format. alt tab

Post a new message using the API, to do that we will need to send a POST request using the Collection+JSON template format

{
  "template" : {
    "data" : [
      {"name" : "text", "value" : "testing You Type It, We Post It"}
    ]
  }
}

In the image we can see the response status 201, that means the resource was created.
alt tab

Finally we can get the root resource and we will see the previous created message as part of it, also you can navigate to a particular message doing a request like that GET GET http://localhost:8888/api/${messsageid} where messageid is the unique id representing a message. alt tab