restclient is a library to help with consuming RESTful web services. It supports encoding and decoding JSON, Percent and XML and comes with a convenience function for working with urls and query parameters.
Include restclient as a rebar dependency with:
{deps, [{restc, ".*", {git, "git://github.com/kivra/restclient.git", {tag, "0.3.4"}}}]}.
You have to start inets before using the client and if you want to use https make sure to start ssl before. Then you can use the client as:
Erlang R15B (erts-5.9) [source] [64-bit] [smp:8:8] [async-threads:0] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false]
Eshell V5.9 (abort with ^G)
1> application:start(inets).
ok
2> application:start(crypto).
ok
3> application:start(public_key).
ok
4> application:start(ssl).
ok
5> restc:request(get, "https://api.github.com").
{ok,204,
[{"connection","keep-alive"},
{"date","Thu, 15 Mar 2012 22:32:47 GMT"},
{"etag","\"d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e\""},
{"server","nginx/1.0.13"},
{"status","204 No Content"},
{"x-ratelimit-limit","5000"},
{"x-ratelimit-remaining","4992"}],
[]}
6> restc:request(get, "https://api.github.com", [200]).
{error,204,
[{"connection","keep-alive"},
{"date","Thu, 15 Mar 2012 22:32:47 GMT"},
{"etag","\"d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e\""},
{"server","nginx/1.0.13"},
{"status","204 No Content"},
{"x-ratelimit-limit","5000"},
{"x-ratelimit-remaining","4992"}],
[]}There's also convenience functions for working with urls and query string:
7> restc:construct_url("http://www.example.com/te", "res/res1/res2", [{"q1", "qval1"}, {"q2", "qval2"}]).
"http://www.example.com/te/res/res1/res2?q1=qval1&q2=qval2"The KIVRA restclient library uses an MIT license. So go ahead and do what you want!
Lots of fun!