Perl Requires Chilkat v11.5.0+

curl with Path Variables and Query Param Variables

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This example demonstrates using variables located in the path and query params with the {{variable_name}} syntax. Chilkat2 Perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

# Variables can occur in the path and query params.
# Variable names are enclosed between {{ and }}

#  curl -X GET https://httpbin.org/{{verb}}?id={id_value}}
my $targetCurl = 'curl -X GET https://httpbin.org/{{verb}}?id={{id_value}}';

my $httpCurl = Chilkat2::HttpCurl->new;

# Provide values for variables.
# In this example, "verb" is a path variable, and "id_value" is a query param variable.
$httpCurl->SetVar('verb', 'get');
$httpCurl->SetVar('id_value', '123');

# Run the curl command.
my $success = $httpCurl->DoYourThing($targetCurl);
if (!$success) {
    print $httpCurl->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

my $responseJson = Chilkat2::JsonObject->new;
$responseJson->EmitCompact(0);

my $statusCode = $httpCurl->StatusCode;
print 'response status code: ', $statusCode, "\n";

$httpCurl->GetResponseJson($responseJson);
print $responseJson->Emit(), "\n";

# Output:

# response status code: 200
# {
#   "args": {
#     "id": "123"
#   },
#   "headers": {
#     "Host": "httpbin.org",
#     "X-Amzn-Trace-Id": "Root=1-69e92914-5d4136d240f2f7fe1056f126"
#   },
#   "origin": "222.222.222.222",
#   "url": "https://httpbin.org/get?id=123"
# }