Does Snap support RESTful API features?

daniel2008_12 · November 22, 2022, 10:32pm

Well, we can use "URL & split" to get/parse https/http responses. Does any block can be used to handle RESTful APIs?

snapenilk · November 23, 2022, 2:33am

File -> Libraries... -> Web services access (https) -> Import

daniel2008_12 · November 23, 2022, 5:05am

Thanks.

d4s_over_dt4 · November 23, 2022, 10:30am

What the heck is a restful?

snapenilk · November 23, 2022, 2:21pm

Sending requests to servers to get information
[EDIT: "no utube"]

d4s_over_dt4 · November 23, 2022, 10:41pm

no utube

pajamaclaws21 · November 24, 2022, 2:15am

RESTful = REST. More info: What is a REST API?

daniel2008_12 · December 9, 2022, 2:44am

How to post a json list to Restful server with snap? quite confused.

snapenilk · December 9, 2022, 2:48am

json of list (same block as length of list)
I think you put the json in the send (internally called payload) parameter.

daniel2008_12 · December 9, 2022, 4:06am

Well, restful server prints: "I (8813) http: Light control: a List [3 elements]", actually "a List [3 elements]", so it seems NOT a json string. Any way to convert list to json object?

List in Snap seems OK, kind of a table.

daniel2008_12 · December 9, 2022, 4:55am

Should be something like bellow string format:

daniel2008_12 · December 9, 2022, 5:20am

It seems OK with

daniel2008_12 · December 9, 2022, 6:50am

Really weird , why set channel5 to 1500 is a string???? not int?

Is there any way to convert it to int?

ego-lay_atman-bay · December 9, 2022, 11:01am

A way to convert a string to number is by using any math block in place of the value. I personally would not do it in snap, but instead have the server convert the string to a number. That way you don't have to rely on snap sending the correct data type.

daniel2008_12 · December 10, 2022, 7:07am

Yeah, HTTP server has added type check.