Need help with cUrl on roku

Archived
1

This works just fine from command line.


 curl 'https://api.blah.com/ath/link' \
  -d 'client_id=lOnGStringOfCharacters' \
  -d 'client_secret=reallyreallylongstringofcharacters' \
  -d 'grant_type=password' \
  -d 'username=blabla@blababla.com' \
  -d 'password=s0mth1ng' 
  -d 'redirect_uri=http://myblah.com/fail'

Any suggestions on how to convert this into a url to POST and or GET using roURlXfer?

Would the \ be converted to an ampersand? or the -d ? I tried putting it all on one line with ampersands and it was no-go, whereas cUrling it worked perfectly.

  • Joel
2

Yes, with an “&”. The POST string should look pretty much identical to a querystring, without the leading “?”. Note that, typically, it should also be URL encoded like a querystring, as well.

urlTransfer = CreateObject("roUrlTransfer")
urlTransfer.SetUrl("https://api.blah.com/ath/link")
urlTransfer.AddHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
result = urlTransfer.PostFromString("client_id=lOnGStringOfCharacters&client_secret=reallyreallylongstringofcharacters&grant_type=password&username=blabla%40blababla.com&password=s0mth1ng&redirect_uri=http%3a%2f%2fmyblah.com%2ffail")
3

Hi Endless, thanks.

One more question: how do I get the response information from this POST? postfromstring just returns an integer, not the response info I get with cUrl on the command line.

  • Joel
4

Use the Async version to get more detailed info returned…

From the event below you could query for the info you want like GetResponseHeadersArray()

–Kevin

Example:


Function http_post_from_string_with_timeout(val As String, seconds as Integer) as String
    timeout% = 1000 * seconds

    str = ""
'    m.Http.EnableFreshConnection(true) 'Don't reuse existing connections
    if (m.Http.AsyncPostFromString(val))
        event = wait(timeout%, m.Http.GetPort())
        if type(event) = "roUrlEvent"
			print "1"
			str = event.GetString()
        elseif event = invalid
			print "2"
            Dbg("AsyncPostFromString timeout")
            m.Http.AsyncCancel()
        else
			print "3"
            Dbg("AsyncPostFromString unknown event", event)
        endif
    endif

    return str
End Function