On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:46 AM, Jens Weber <j...@uvic.ca> wrote: > Does anybody have a simple example for calling Webservices (REST) with > racket?
I got tired of the repetitive mechanics of this and made something called webapi-markdown. The full idea includes documentation -- that you could do a variation of "literate programming" where the documentation for a web service *is* the specification of it. As a web service developer you kill a few birds with one stone: The spec, the server, and an easy way to generate client wrappers. However if you're a user of a web service whose developers weren't wise enough to use this ;) you can omit the descriptive bits and just use it as a way to generate wrapper functions. 1. https://github.com/greghendershott/webapi-markdown describes the file format and has working examples for real services. Note that this isn't specific to Racket. 2. wffi (web FFI) is a Racket implementation. Repo: https://github.com/greghendershott/wffi As a Racket package: `raco pkg install wffi`. I've actually this to do e.g. a wrapper for the EchoNest service. The code is: - 95% markdown: https://github.com/greghendershott/echonest/blob/master/echonest/echonest.md - 2% Racket: https://github.com/greghendershott/echonest/blob/master/echonest/main.rkt - 3% misc package/project files: https://github.com/greghendershott/echonest Although this is simple for me to use, I don't know how simple it would be for you. Maybe there's an opportunity to make something in the same spirit, but even simpler. Like, a function that you give the request template and a dictionary of your values. ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
