I want to create post request to a webapp that does not have API endpoints.
I want to be able to login, fetch data and post data. I have just stumbled upon GuzzleHttp, but HTTP alone is so hard. The webapp is a laravel application. How can I do this? Or is there elegant way of doing this?
Try Goutte. It uses Guzzle under the hood, but provides higher level interface to deal with web sites.
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I'm building a web app with Laravel for scheduling emails and when I was checking out the competitors, I noticed that one of them is using only one endpoint for all the requests and sending different payload in the POST request.
I thought of building my app's API the same way but I really don't find the use of this point.
I noticed that one of them is using only one endpoint for all the requests and sending different payload in the POST request.
It's a common approach to use when you want transport agnostic messaging. See, for example, SOAP.
I am making an ios app that requires a webservice. The webservice will be using an already-in-place and completely unchangeable (for my purposes) database that is handled by Django. I know how to set up the UI and develop apps in general, but how do I manage the backend side / client side for login? I noticed some people talking about TastyPie when I researched the topic but I am unsure about what exactly that entails. I've been using php for the rest of the service - would using TastyPie make me write it in some other language? Is TastyPie really necessary?
Furthermore, I saw someone say that one may just put a UIWebView and then take the cookie out of it when the login. Is that feasible? It sounds like the easiest option.
Thanks for any help!
Tastypie is just a Python Django framework to help developers write REST APIs easily.
Yes using Tastypie will make you write APIs in Python. Tastypie is not necessary to write REST APIs.
In your case since you can not change the database. I would suggest you to write REST API in Python Django and use django.auth login method after authenticating the credentials. login method will create the session key for you. You can send back that key in response and then pass that key to all the subsequent REST API calls. Do not use Tastypie for writing this API as Tastypie will require you to add some tables in the DB.
I will suggest AFNetworking as a library that is commonly used to communicate with REST services. There should be no need to change your existing server code. AFNetworking is on github.
There are also a ton of posts on StackOverflow about using AFNetworking. Pertaining to the specifics of logging in - look at this User Login With AFNetworking or search further.
I need some good suggestions and ideas.
I have wcfRest service and the client is iPhone and Android. The client will GET and POST data.
I also made an API key which is a GUID, for the client.
BUT, do the client need to supply the api key with every method they request?? Or is there any way that I can store in the session or something??
for example:
json/getUserDetails/{userID}/{apikey}
json/saveUser/{apikey}
You could try checking out OAuth, that's the security method Twitter, Facebook, Google and others use. Since sending the API key to the server could lead you to someone getting it and doing stuff you might not like.
OAuth
An open protocol to allow secure API authorization in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications. It also works with mobile.
http://oauth.net/
Also check out the different languages http://oauth.net/code/
You'll have to send something on each request - whether it's the API key or an authenticated header, you need a way to authenticate the caller. So the easiest way would be to send the api key with each request, although using the header is a better idea.
I'm trying to get a FacebookLoginTest running.
Problem is: the Symfony2 client does not send real HTTP requests, so it does not work on URLs of other services (like facebook).
I know I could work with cUrl,... but I see so many obstacles there: session, javascript, redirects.
Any ideas how we could get this running? Anyone got a automatic oAuth test running?
Your best bet might be Goutte https://github.com/fabpot/Goutte which is a wrapper around the Sf2 components you're using combined with an HTTP client. Good luck!
curl should work just fine for this, and while it doesn't support javascript, you won't need js support for what you're trying to accomplish.
I've never used an API and was wondering how you use them... I would like to use facebook, twitter and vimeo's api,
Can someone explain the basics of using them, how do i access them and use them etc.
Please and thanks
Neil
How to use an API depends on the API. Usually the API creator has documentation on how to use their specific API.
Mostly, things work like the following:
You register to get a developer key. Then, you send requests to the service via HTTP (for example Twitter is using REST, which requires you to send XML or JSON to a specific http-URL providing your key). You get an answer from the service, which you must then parse and react to accordingly (for example filling a list with contacts, etc.).
Most of the time this all comes down to:
Create an XML or JSON document that describes the call parameters
Send the document to an URL using GET, POST or other request methods
Get the server's response
Parse and evaluate the response
The specific ways to use the API, especially performing authentication, can be found on the service's developer pages.
The best way to start if you want to use an API is to read it's documentation, find some tutorials and code examples. This is always/usually published by the one offering an API.
Good luck :)