Desarrollo y Mantenimiento de Sistemas Informáticos

4º. 1er cuatrimestre. Itinerario de Sistemas de la Información. Grado en Ingeniería Informática. ULL

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Clientes para APIS REST

API testing requires an application to interact with API. Rest API can be tested with tools like:

gh cli (for GitHub APIs)
Curl
- Read How to use curl to test a REST AP
Thunder Client
Insomnia
Postman

Github cli Using GH REST API

Learn to generate a GH token
Learn to use jq
- Manual

Examples that make requests to GitHub REST to Get all contributor commit activity

➜  src git:(main) ✗ gh api \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
  /repos/ULL-ESIT-DMSI-2223/ull-esit-dmsi-2223.github.io/stats/participation | head -n 1
{"all":[7,2,8,10,2,3,4,0,0,9,14,6,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,2,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,11,14,23,9,9,6,13],"owner":[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]}

➜  src git:(main) ✗ gh api \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
  /repos/ULL-ESIT-DMSI-2223/ull-esit-dmsi-2223.github.io/stats/participation --jq '.all[51]'
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➜  src git:(main) ✗ gh api \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
  /repos/ULL-ESIT-DMSI-2223/ull-esit-dmsi-2223.github.io/stats/participation --jq '.all[-1]'       
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➜  src git:(main) ✗ gh api \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
  /repos/ULL-ESIT-DMSI-2223/ull-esit-dmsi-2223.github.io/stats/participation --jq '.all[(.all | length)-1]'
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Example Using curl

~/.../chapter20-node-js-crguezl/the-http-module(master)]$ curl -d "param1=value1&param2=value2" -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" -X POST https://10.150.22.51:8000/data

<h1>Hello!</h1>
<p>You asked for 
<code>
/data 
<!-- The url is the full URL without the server, protocol or port. -->
</code>
using the POST method
</p>
<p>Your headers:</p> 
<pre>
{
  host: '10.150.22.51:8000',
  'user-agent': 'curl/7.54.0',
  accept: '*/*',
  'content-type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
  'content-length': '27'
}
</pre>

curl.md gist illustrating the use of curl

Example Using Insomnia

request with inmsomnia

https://insomnia.rest/

Example Using Postman

request with Postman