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A wrapper for ruby net/http, supports http/https, RESTful methods, headers, certificate and file uploads
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 Dependencies

Runtime

>= 1.6.6
 Project Readme

EZHttp

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A wrapper for ruby net/http, supports http/https, RESTful methods, headers, certificate and file uploads.
It supports both command line and ruby code.

How to use it

Command Line

Send with query string

ezhttp \
--url "https://api.twitter.com/1/followers/ids.json" \
--method "get" \
--data "cursor=-1&screen_name=twitterapi"

Send with query string

ezhttp \
--url "https://api.twitter.com/1/followers/ids.json&cursor=-1&screen_name=twitterapi" \
--method "get" 

Send with json

ezhttp \
--url 'http://127.0.0.1:3000/file/upload_file' \
--data '{"name":{"fn":"xxx","ln":"xxx"}}' \
--method 'post' \
--type 'application/json' 

Send with header

ezhttp \
--url 'https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token' \
--method 'post' \	
--header 'Authorization: OAuth oauth_nonce="K7ny27JTpKVsTgdyLdDfmQQWVLERj2zAK5BslRsqyw", oauth_callback="http%3A%2F%2Fmyapp.com%3A3005%2Ftwitter%2Fprocess_callback", oauth_signature_method="HMAC-SHA1", oauth_timestamp="1300228849", oauth_consumer_key="OqEqJeafRSF11jBMStrZz", oauth_signature="Pc%2BMLdv028fxCErFyi8KXFM%2BddU%3D", oauth_version="1.0"'

Upload file

ezhttp \
--url 'http://127.0.0.1:3000/file/upload_file' \
--files 'path_to_file.png'

Upload multiple files with header

ezhttp \
--url 'http://127.0.0.1:3000/file/upload_file' \
--files 'path_to_file1.zip','path_to_file2.jpg' \
--header 'authorization:Basic Zvsdwegbdgegsdv0xvsd='

Ruby

Send with encoded query string as data

# Post request
response = EZHttp.Post("https://www.example.com:83/api",
			"user_id=12345&token=sdfwD12g%7Ecc")

# Get request
response = EZHttp.Get("http://www.example.com/api",
			"user_id=12345&token=sdfwD12g%7Ecc")

# OR
response = EZHttp.Get("http://www.example.com/api?user_id=12345&token=sdfwD12g%7Ecc")

Send with hash as data

# Post request
response = EZHttp.Post("https://www.example.com:83/api",
			{"name1"=>"value", "name2" => "value2"})

# Put request
response = EZHttp.Put("https://www.example.com:83/api",
			{"name1"=>"value", "name2" => "value2"})

Send with extra headers

response = EZHttp.Post("https://www.example.com:83/api",
			"user_id=12345&token=sdfwD12g%7Ecc",
			nil,
			[
				"authentication:oAuth username=xxx&password=xxx",
				"other_header:other_values"
			])

Send with pem certificate

response = EZHttp.Delete("https://www.example.com:83/api",
			{"user_id"=>"12345"},
			"application/json",
			nil,
			"/path_to_cert.pem")

Upload file(s)

# 
files = []
file = File.open("path_to_file.extension", "rb")
files.push({"name" => File.basename(file), "content" => file.read})
file.close

# simply upload file
response = EZHttp.Upload("https://www.example.com:83/api",
			files)

# upload file with headers
response = EZHttp.Upload("https://www.example.com:83/api",
			files,
			["authorization:Basic Zvsdwegbdgegsdv0xvsd="])

Display response

puts response.body

Installation

Add the following line to rails "Gemfile"

gem "ez_http"

then execute

$ bundle install  

See http://rubygems.org/gems/ez_http for more details

Authors

Tianyu Huang