Lua

Send a REST Request with a Text Body

Demonstrates Rest.FullRequestString, a convenience method that sends a complete request whose text body (such as JSON, XML, or plain text) is supplied directly, then reads and returns the response body as text.

Background. The full-request convenience methods perform the entire request/response exchange in a single call. FullRequestString is well suited to typical JSON or XML API calls where the body fits comfortably in a string.

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local chilkat = require("chilkat")

local rest = chilkat.Rest.new()
local bTls = true
local bAutoReconnect = true
local success = rest:connect("example.com", 443, bTls, bAutoReconnect)
if not success then
    print(rest.last_error_text)
    return
end

-- Send a complete request whose text body is supplied directly, such as JSON.  The response body is
-- read as text and returned.  The 1st argument is the HTTP verb, the 2nd is the URI path, and the
-- 3rd is the request body.
rest:add_header("Content-Type", "application/json")

local jsonBody = "{ \"name\": \"example\", \"active\": true }"
local responseText = rest:full_request_string("POST", "/api/items", jsonBody)
if not rest.last_method_success then
    print(rest.last_error_text)
    return
end

print(responseText)