jsonclient(1)

NAME
jsonclient - Shell command for performing HTTP/JSON requests using Ruby jsonclient

SYNOPSIS

jsonclient <method> <uri> [params]

jsonclient

DESCRIPTION
This program is an example/companion to the Ruby jsonclient module, but can be used as a complete standalone HTTP/JSON client.

If invoked with a method and an URI, the specified URI will be requested via the method given from its server. The allowed methods are head, get, post, put, delete, options, propfind, proppatch and trace.

Parameters can be specified as a third parameter and will be delivered accordingly (i.e. appended to the URI after a ? sign if the method is get, but as the posted body if the method is post)

Please note that no checks are done as to whether the requested parameters make sense in the context they are specified, they are just sent as-is.

$ jsonclient get https://www.google.co.jp/ q=ruby

If no parameters are specified, an interactive Ruby (irb) session will be opened, binding an JSONClient object as 'self'. You can then call JSONClient instance methods like:

$ jsonclient
    >> get "https://www.google.co.jp/", :q => :ruby

JSONclient will print the `wiredump' of your request (that is, the commands sent to the server via HTTP), then the request's headers, and finally the result.

OPTIONS

AUTHORS
Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org>, Hleb Valoshka <375gnu@gmail.com>

NOTES
This manual page was written by Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org> and Hleb Valoshka <375gnu@gmail.com> for the Debian project, but can be freely used by others. This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.