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felipec on 04/15/07


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Ruby REST

Published in: Ruby 

Very basic but functional REST helper.

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  1. require 'net/https'
  2.  
  3. module REST
  4. 	class Connection
  5. 		def initialize(base_url, args = {})
  6. 			@base_url = base_url
  7. 			@username = args[:username]
  8. 			@password = args[:password]
  9. 		end
  10.  
  11. 		def request_get(resource, args = nil)
  12. 			request(resource, "get", args)
  13. 		end
  14.  
  15. 		def request_post(resource, args = nil)
  16. 			request(resource, "post", args)
  17. 		end
  18.  
  19. 		def request(resource, method = "get", args = nil)
  20. 			url = URI.join(@base_url, resource)
  21.  
  22. 			if args
  23. 				# TODO: What about keys without value?
  24. 				url.query = args.map { |k,v| "%s=%s" % [URI.encode(k), URI.encode(v)] }.join("&")
  25. 			end
  26.  
  27. 			case method
  28. 			when "get"
  29. 				req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url.request_uri)
  30. 			when "post"
  31. 				req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url.request_uri)
  32. 			end
  33.  
  34. 			if @username and @password
  35. 				req.basic_auth(@username, @password)
  36. 			end
  37.  
  38. 			http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
  39. 			http.use_ssl = (url.port == 443)
  40.  
  41. 			res = http.start() { |conn| conn.request(req) }
  42. 			res.body
  43. 		end
  44. 	end
  45. end

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