Re: Wanted: volunteer to integrate REST-client (restclient.el)

[John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>]

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windows and pip/easy_install are funny sometimes.

I often do something like this:

#+BEGIN_SRC python
from setuptools.command import easy_install
easy_install.main( ["-U","requests"] )
#+END_SRC

#+RESULTS:
#+begin_example
Searching for requests
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/requests/
Best match: requests 2.2.1
Downloading
https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/r/requests/requests-2.2.1.tar.gz#md5=ac27081135f58d1a43e4fb38258d6f4e
Processing requests-2.2.1.tar.gz
Writing /tmp/easy_install-EWppsP/requests-2.2.1/setup.cfg
Running requests-2.2.1/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir
/tmp/easy_install-EWppsP/requests-2.2.1/egg-dist-tmp-xoXvDk
Adding requests 2.2.1 to easy-install.pth file

Installed
/opt/kitchingroup/enthought/epd-7.3-2-rh5-x86_64/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests-2.2.1-py2.7.egg
Processing dependencies for requests
Finished processing dependencies for requests
#+end_example





John

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John Kitchin
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Department of Chemical Engineering
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On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Karl Voit <devnull@karl-voit.at> wrote:

> Hi John!
>
> * John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
> >
> > I think you could do this via requests directly. It could be done in
> emacs:
> > https://github.com/tkf/emacs-request
>
> Thanks for the pointer.
>
> I evaluated it and it seems not that good for my requirements
> because I need it mainly for documenting stuff/issues/...
>
> With request.el, I need lots of lines per call whereas restclient.el
> needs only three lines which can be written, read, adopted pretty
> easily.
>
> > or python: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/
> >
> > In your case you could have a block like this:
> >
> > #+BEGIN_SRC python
> > import requests
> > headers = {"Authorization": "Basic YmVfcmVzdF9hZG1",
> >            "Accept-Encoding": "application/xml"}
> > r = requests.get("http://myserver/rest/dothis", headers=headers)
> > print r.text
> > #+END_SRC
>
> This would be completely OK to me.
>
> Unfortunately, cygwin does not come with "python-requests" and I
> failed at installing "pip" on my Windows machine [1] :-(
>
>
> Probably restclient.el has also a unique feature which is neat for
> my purpose: pretty printing XML responses.
>
> So I guess I have to stick with my current method which is using the
> *scratch* buffer and manually switching to restclient-mode and
> copy&paste the request and the results from/to my Org-mode buffers.
>
> However, thanks for the great links!
>
>   1. "python get-pip.py" runs without error message but then I can
>      not execute nor find pip(.exe) at all :-(
>
> --
> mail|git|SVN|photos|postings|SMS|phonecalls|RSS|CSV|XML to Org-mode:
>        > get Memacs from https://github.com/novoid/Memacs <
>
> https://github.com/novoid/extract_pdf_annotations_to_orgmode + more on
> github
>
>
>

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