Re: [O] Wanted: volunteer to integrate REST-client (restclient.el)

[John Kitchin]

windows and pip/easy_install are funny sometimes.

I often do something like this:

#+BEGIN_SRC python
from setuptools.command import easy_install
easy_install.main( ["-U","requests"] )
#+END_SRC

#+RESULTS:
#+begin_example
Searching for requests
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/requests/
Best match: requests 2.2.1
Downloading https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/r/requests/requests-2.2.1.tar.gz#md5=ac27081135f58d1a43e4fb38258d6f4e
Processing requests-2.2.1.tar.gz
Writing /tmp/easy_install-EWppsP/requests-2.2.1/setup.cfg
Running requests-2.2.1/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-EWppsP/requests-2.2.1/egg-dist-tmp-xoXvDk
Adding requests 2.2.1 to easy-install.pth file

Installed /opt/kitchingroup/enthought/epd-7.3-2-rh5-x86_64/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests-2.2.1-py2.7.egg
Processing dependencies for requests
Finished processing dependencies for requests
#+end_example

John

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On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Karl Voit <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi John!

* John Kitchin <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> I think you could do this via requests directly. It could be done in emacs:
> https://github.com/tkf/emacs-request

Thanks for the pointer.

I evaluated it and it seems not that good for my requirements
because I need it mainly for documenting stuff/issues/...

With request.el, I need lots of lines per call whereas restclient.el
needs only three lines which can be written, read, adopted pretty
easily.

> or python: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/
>
> In your case you could have a block like this:
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC python
> import requests
> headers = {"Authorization": "Basic YmVfcmVzdF9hZG1",
>            "Accept-Encoding": "application/xml"}
> r = requests.get("http://myserver/rest/dothis", headers=headers)
> print r.text
> #+END_SRC

This would be completely OK to me.

Unfortunately, cygwin does not come with "python-requests" and I
failed at installing "pip" on my Windows machine [1] :-(


Probably restclient.el has also a unique feature which is neat for
my purpose: pretty printing XML responses.

So I guess I have to stick with my current method which is using the
*scratch* buffer and manually switching to restclient-mode and
copy&paste the request and the results from/to my Org-mode buffers.

However, thanks for the great links!

  1. "python get-pip.py" runs without error message but then I can
     not execute nor find pip(.exe) at all :-(

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