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Otter functions for interacting with REST API's?
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Hi,
After deployment of my application I need to call some (in the near future probably even a lot) REST API's to finish configuration of the app.
My idea is to set this up with configuration files, which serve as input parameters for the API calls.-
Are their any functions native to OtterSript for calling the API's or would I need to use for example PowerShell to make the actual calls? (And if it must be powershell, how would I access the config files from there?)
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In this scenario, I forsee to en up with hundreds of configuration files, would that cause issues?
Thanks,
Justin
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Hi @Justinvolved ,
Hundreds of configuration files in one application -- definitely too much. I'd probably seek a different solution if that's the case. But having one or a few per application is okay.
There is an Http-Post Operation that you can probably use to make API calls. Conceptually it's similar to the PowerShell
Invoke-WebRequestmethod.I'm not sure what the configuration file would look like (array? map variable?), but there's also a variable function, ($Filecontents()), that could read a file, and an $Eval() function that can can convert text into variables.
That said... it might be a bit challenging to do all this in OtterScript. It's not really designed for this. You may be better off writing a global PowerShell script that can process input from a configuration file that you deploy to the working directory. That would also be easier to test as well.
Cheers,
Alana
