Bash REST API client

This is a bash solution to script REST API calls.

The specialties of this component are

• It was build to simplify http calls and handle http response for scripts
• After making a request the response stays is in memory. There is no output to any file to grep something or to cleanup after usage.
• Its functions feel a bit like class methods, i.e. http.getResponse to get the response body or http.getResponseHeader for the Http response header
• This component wraps curl - ist supports any http method
• works with anonymous requests and Basic Authentication
• The response can be stored ... and reimported later. After import you can use the http.get* functions to fetch results from the former request.
• Caching support for GET requests with a given TTL: if you repeat a request to the same url and ttl was not reached yet then you continue with the cached result

👤 Author: Axel Hahn; Institute for Medical Education; University of Bern
📄 Source: https://git-repo.iml.unibe.ch/iml-open-source/bash-rest-api-client
📜 License: GNU GPL 3.0
📗 Docs: https://os-docs.iml.unibe.ch/bash-rest-api-client/

http.init
http.makeRequest 'http://www.example.com/'

This stores the response in a variable and has no output. Now you can get its data, eg

• http.getStatuscode - This returns the Http status code
• http.getResponseHeader - print Http response header
• http.getResponseData - get data from curl
• http.getResponse - get response body