@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ examples/rubyurl.rb examples/twitter.rb examples/whoismyrep.rb History -httparty.gemspec lib/core_extensions.rb lib/httparty/exceptions.rb lib/httparty/request.rb Manifest @@ -15,6 +15,17 @@ Makes http fun again! See http://github.com/jnunemaker/httparty/tree/master/examples +== COMMAND LINE INTERFACE + +httparty also includes the executable <tt>httparty</tt> which can be +used to query web services and examine the resulting output. By default +it will output the response as a pretty-printed Ruby object (useful for +grokking the structure of output). This can also be overridden to output +formatted XML or JSON. Execute <tt>httparty --help</tt> for all the +options. Below is an example of how easy it is. + + httparty "http://twitter.com/statuses/public_timeline.json" -f json + == REQUIREMENTS: * JSON ~> 1.1 README @@ -80,18 +80,24 @@ module REXML end end -response = HTTParty.send(opts[:action], ARGV.first, opts.merge(:format => :plain)) - -if opts[:pretty_print] - pp response +if opts[:pretty_print] || opts[:format].nil? + pp HTTParty.send(opts[:action], ARGV.first, opts) else - case opts[:format] - when :json - puts JSON.pretty_generate(JSON.parse(response)) - when :xml - REXML::Document.new(response).write(STDOUT, 2) - puts + print_format = opts[:format] + opts.merge!(:format => :plain) if opts[:format] + response = HTTParty.send(opts[:action], ARGV.first, opts) + + if print_format.nil? + pp response else - puts response + case print_format + when :json + puts JSON.pretty_generate(JSON.parse(response)) + when :xml + REXML::Document.new(response).write(STDOUT, 2) + puts + else + puts response + end end -end +end \ No newline at end of file bin/httparty 78f0c846d89ab53c3730b059aa75ae1ea53abb2b John Nunemaker nunemaker@gmail.com http://github.com/jnunemaker/httparty/commit/dbb68d047de2e6e3218577063031e655d64a7adf dbb68d047de2e6e3218577063031e655d64a7adf 2009-01-04T23:03:37-08:00 2009-01-04T22:58:08-08:00 Added readme info on CLI interface. Ensured that CLI defaults to ruby pp. 32f765f5e11a9ebe858d262c20dc6d9252ea1bde John Nunemaker nunemaker@gmail.com