Note
Nowadays Web services are JSON-based, so making your script JSON aware is probably a good choice. In order to be able to extract data from a JSON document as well as composing JSON documents from a script, you can leverage jq.
In this example our Kapow! service will receive a JSON value with an incorrect date, then our pow
file will fix it and return the correct value to the user.
$ cat fix_date.pow
kapow route add -X POST /fix-date - <<-'EOF'
kapow set /response/headers/Content-Type application/json
kapow get /request/body | jq --arg newdate "$(date +'%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S')" '.incorrectDate=$newdate' | kapow set /response/body
EOF
Call the service with curl
:
$ curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/fix-date -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"incorrectDate": "no way, Jose"}'
{
"incorrectDate": "2019-11-22_10-42-06"
}
In this example we extract the name
field from the incoming JSON document in order to generate a two-attribute JSON response.
$ cat echo-attribute.pow
kapow route add -X POST /echo-attribute - <<-'EOF'
JSON_WHO=$(kapow get /request/body | jq -r .name)
kapow set /response/headers/Content-Type application/json
kapow set /response/status 200
jq --arg greet Hello --arg value "${JSON_WHO:-World}" --null-input '{ greet: $greet, to: $value }' | kapow set /response/body
EOF
Call the service with curl
:
$ curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/echo-attribute -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"name": "MyName"}'
{
"greet": "Hello",
"to": "MyName"
}