Perl

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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use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

my $rest = Chilkat2::Rest->new;
my $bTls = 1;
my $bAutoReconnect = 1;
my $success = $rest->Connect('example.com', 443, $bTls, $bAutoReconnect);
if (!$success) {
    print $rest->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# 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->AddHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json');

my $jsonBody = '{ "name": "example", "active": true }';
my $responseText = $rest->FullRequestString('POST', '/api/items', $jsonBody);
if (!$rest->LastMethodSuccess) {
    print $rest->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

print $responseText, "\n";