HTTP PUT for RESTful Web services on roUrlTransfer?

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Is there a way to “influence” roUrlTransfer to issue HTTP PUTs instead of GET/POST? In order to communicate with RESTful Web services you need all the HTTP verbs, but there’s little else roUrlTransfer needs to do to handle them. One example usage: Apache and IIS allow via HTTP PUT to upload data without scripts on the other end.

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Yes. roUrlTransfer has several POST methods:
PostFromString()
PostFromFile()
AsyncPostFromString()
AsyncPostFromFile()

–Kevin

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“RokuKevin” wrote:
Yes. roUrlTransfer has several POST methods:
PostFromString()
PostFromFile()
AsyncPostFromString()
AsyncPostFromFile()

–Kevin

I think you missed his point. He’s asking for an HTTP PUT command, as listed here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_ … st_methods

It makes sense to add DELETE at the same time as PUT, if it’s added. Many API’s that require PUT also require DELETE to be fully used.

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“kbenson” wrote:

“RokuKevin” wrote:
Yes. roUrlTransfer has several POST methods:
PostFromString()
PostFromFile()
AsyncPostFromString()
AsyncPostFromFile()

–Kevin

I think you missed his point. He’s asking for an HTTP PUT command, as listed here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_ … st_methods

It makes sense to add DELETE at the same time as PUT, if it’s added. Many API’s that require PUT also require DELETE to be fully used.+1

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Thanks for the clarification. You are correct that there is not currently a way to do a PUT or DELETE.

–Kevin

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“RokuKevin” wrote:
Thanks for the clarification. You are correct that there is not currently a way to do a PUT or DELETE.

–Kevin

Hey Kevin,

Any plans to add these commands to the roUrlTransfer interface ? There are some APIs that uses that for important features.

7

After two years this should be split into its own thread.

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It’s not ideal, but someone could write their own HTTP library with roStreamSocket. It wouldn’t be hard, per-se, just time consuming. Pick your favortite HTTP client library implemented in a pure scripting language, and port.

As I said, not ideal, but at least now possible.

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Reinventing the wheel will be outright silly, provided that there is nothing special about PUT and DELETE - trivial methods need to be added by Roku for compliance to RESTful calls.

10

Feature Request Bug filed.

  • Joel
11

Hi,
I am looking into integrating a new channel with a third party RESTful service that requires HTTP PUT requests for certain operations.

Do you have an update on this feature request, Joel?

Does anybody else know of a working solution or workaround for HTTP PUT, possibly using roStreamSocket as suggested by kbenson?

Thanks
–Henning

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Looking into the status. It appears that our sister company BrightSign implemented it, not sure if we did on our end, the bug is still open.

  • Joel
13

I also would really appreciate this to be implemented.

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Hi Joel,

any update on this?

Thanks
–Henning

15

Do you have some examples of popular APIs where this would be of value? Hard to get something built if only a few obscure APIs require PUT and DELETE.

  • Joel
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“RokuJoel” wrote:
Do you have some examples of popular APIs where this would be of value? Hard to get something built if only a few obscure APIs require PUT and DELETE.

Plus, they are basic HTTP verbs, and you never know when the next up-and-coming api will require them.

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good one, thanks.

  • Joel
18

I second that request! There are a lot of REST services out there now (including a lot of developers that are probably creating their own now). I would be very nice to have built-in support for this!

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Hi Joel,

there’s a ton of REST based APIs out there and I’m sure a lot them use PUT:
http://www.programmableweb.com/apis/dir … rt=mashups

IMHO supporting PUT (and possibly DELETE) would facilitate the development of channels beyond the traditional “media consumption” use cases.

–Henning

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It turns out that the SetRequest method of roURLtransfer supports this:

http=createobject(“roURLTransfer”)
http.setRequest(“PUT”)

This is now published in the online SDK:
http://sdkdocs.roku.com/display/sdkdoc/ … eqasString

  • Joel