Hi Dan, Thanks for your reply. The backward slash worked and was exactly what was needed.
I really appreciate your always helpful suggestions, both here and on the webmachine mailing list. Once again thanks, Ted On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Dan Reverri <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ted, > The ibrowse application is expecting the body of the request to be a string, > binary or function. > http://wiki.github.com/cmullaparthi/ibrowse/ibrowse-api#type-body > In your code sample you are passing a list which contains a tuple which > contains an atom. In Erlang single quotes signify an atom, > so '{"vvfe":"fegtg"}' is an atom. You should instead pass a string: > ibrowse:send_req("http://127.0.0.1:8098/riak/test/doc?returnbody=true",[{"Content-Type";, > "application/json"}], put, "{\"vvfe\":\"fegtg\""). > Let me know if that works for you. > Thanks, > Dan > Daniel Reverri > Developer Advocate > Basho Technologies, Inc. > [email protected] > > > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Ted Karmel <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Dan, >> >> Thanks for your reply. >> >> The REST API link was exactly what I was looking for. >> >> By converting the command to HTTP headers, what I meant was seeing all >> of the request and response headers. I realize now that the v >> parameter does the trick in curl. >> >> The curl requests were all successful. It was the http client request >> from within erlang that was the problem. And hence the desire to look >> at the http headers more closely (as I perhaps misunderstood how to >> formulate them). >> >> Alas, the http client requests still do not work. I use ibrowse. I >> try the following in ibrowse for the put request: >> >> 4> ibrowse:send_req("http://127.0.0.1:8091/riak/test/doc?returnbody=true";, >> [{"Content-Type", "application/json"}], put, [{'{"vvfe":"fegtg"}'}]). >> >> >> And I get the following error: >> >> {error,{'EXIT',{badarg,[{erlang,list_to_binary, >> [[{'{"vvfe":"fegtg"}'}]]}, >> {ibrowse,ensure_bin,1}, >> {ibrowse,do_send_req,7}, >> {erl_eval,do_apply,5}, >> {shell,exprs,7}, >> {shell,eval_exprs,7}, >> {shell,eval_loop,3}]}}} >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Dan Reverri <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi Ted, >> > A few observations about your original message: >> > The curl command you provided looks correct, however, there are new line >> > characters after each header (Content-Type, Riak-X-Vclock). I am not >> > sure >> > whether or not those were added by the email client. The presence of new >> > line characters in the headers would cause the request to fail. The >> > request >> > should work without the new line characters: >> > curl -v -X PUT -d '{"bar":"baz"}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H >> > "X-Riak-Vclock:a85hYGBgzGDKBVIszMk55zKYEhnzWBlKIniO8mUBAA==" >> > http://127.0.0.1:8091/riak/test/doc?returnbody=true >> > >> > I am not sure what you mean by converting the command to HTTP headers. >> > The >> > raw request looks as follows: >> > PUT /riak/test/doc?returnbody=true HTTP/1.1 >> > Content-Type: application/json >> > X-Riak-Vclock: a85hYGBgzGDKBVIszMk55zKYEhnzWBlKIniO8mUBAA== >> > {"bar":"baz"} >> > >> > Regarding your last attempt, option "c", it's important to note that URL >> > parameters are not included in the body of the request when processed by >> > Riak. Riak will store the data included in the body of the request and >> > ignore unrecognized URL parameters. >> > Thanks, >> > Dan >> > Daniel Reverri >> > Developer Advocate >> > Basho Technologies, Inc. >> > [email protected] >> > >> > >> > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Dan Reverri <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi Ted, >> >> Documentation for the REST API can be found here: >> >> https://wiki.basho.com/display/RIAK/REST+API >> >> >> >> Regarding the failed requests, can you show us the various requests you >> >> are making via curl along with the responses? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Dan >> >> Daniel Reverri >> >> Developer Advocate >> >> Basho Technologies, Inc. >> >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Ted Karmel <[email protected]> >> >> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> Does Riak have an HTTP API doc ( similar to the CouchDB one found >> >>> here: http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/HTTP_Document_API )? >> >>> >> >>> The closest thing I can find is the Riak Fast Track ( >> >>> https://wiki.basho.com/display/RIAK/The+Riak+Fast+Track ). But that >> >>> is in curl only rather than explicit HTTP headers. >> >>> >> >>> In particular, I have a problem with the PUT request in the following >> >>> curl command >> >>> >> >>> $ curl -v -X PUT -d '{"bar":"baz"}' -H "Content-Type: >> >>> application/json" -H "X-Riak-Vclock: >> >>> a85hYGBgzGDKBVIszMk55zKYEhnzWBlKIniO8mUBAA==" >> >>> http://127.0.0.1:8091/riak/test/doc?returnbody=true >> >>> >> >>> I try to convert the command into HTTP headers but the request fails >> >>> when the followin is attempted : >> >>> >> >>> a) include {"bar":"baz"} in the body and set the Content-Type header >> >>> to application/json >> >>> b) same as a) but add another Content-Type header value - this time >> >>> of application/x-www-form-urlencoded ( inspired by the info on the >> >>> -d command found in the following curl manual >> >>> http://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html ) >> >>> c) same as b) but instead of placing {"bar":"baz"} in the body, add >> >>> ampersand in the url and bar=baz >> >>> http://127.0.0.1:8091/riak/test/doc?returnbody=true&bar=baz >> >>> >> >>> I tried looking for an equivalent to the Live HTTP Headers extension >> >>> on Firefox but which would capture activity from curl commands. Then, >> >>> I could get a better idea of how to formulate the HTTP headers. >> >>> >> >>> Please Help... >> >>> >> >>> if there is an HTTP API doc with explicity header request info >> >>> >> >>> how to formulate this particular PUT request with the HTTP headers >> >>> >> >>> good ubuntu linux utility for capturing http activity even if not from >> >>> browser application >> >>> >> >>> _______________________________________________ >> >>> riak-users mailing list >> >>> [email protected] >> >>> http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com >> >> >> > >> > > > _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
