Rope REST

REST endpoint for Rope nodes to make calls via any HTTP client.

Getting Started

Install dependencies first via npm install then start the REST server with npm start.

If developing locally and need to use a specific Rope server it can be passed as an environment variable;

ROPE_SERVER=http://0.0.0.0:3210 npm start

Once server is up and running we can make a call to any available node with an HTTP client of choice;

POST http://0.0.0.0:3435/KITE_ID/METHOD

and body of the request should be in JSON format for arguments.

If you need to query available nodes you can use GET /query/[method] endpoint, which will return all available nodes if method is not provided.

If method is present it will try to find nodes which has that method in their api manifest.

Complete example would be;

λ ~/ KITES=$(curl -sX GET http://0.0.0.0:3435/query/square) # find kites which has square method
λ ~/ KITEID=$(echo $KITES | jq -r '.[0].id')                # get the first one's id
λ ~/ curl -sX POST \
  http://0.0.0.0:3435/$KITEID/square \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '[50]' | jq                                            # run square method with 50
2500                                                        # and the result 2500

• jq is a tool for parsing json

License

MIT (c) 2017 Rope