Pike v8.1 release 6

Class Web.Api.Api

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Description

Base class for implementing a (RESTful) WebApi like Facebook's Graph API, Instagram's API, Twitter's API and so on.

Note: This class is useless in it self, and is intended to be inherited by classes implementing a given Web.Api.

Look at the code in Web.Api.Github, Web.Api.Instagram, Web.Api.Linkedin etc to see some examples of implementations.


Constant ACCESS_TOKEN_PARAM_NAME

protected constant string Web.Api.Api.ACCESS_TOKEN_PARAM_NAME

Description

In some API's (LinkedIn f ex) this is named something else so it needs to be overridden i cases where it has a different name than the standard one


Constant API_URI

constant int Web.Api.Api.API_URI

Description

The URI to the remote API


Constant AuthClass

protected constant Web.Api.Api.AuthClass

Description

Authentication class to use


Typedef Callback

typedef function(mixed, Protocols.HTTP.Query|Protocols.HTTP.Promise.Result:void) Web.Api.Api.Callback

Description

Typedef for the async callback method signature.


Typedef Callback

typedef function(mixed, Protocols.HTTP.Query:void) Web.Api.Api.Callback

Description

Typedef for the async callback method signature.


Constant DECODE_UTF8

protected constant int Web.Api.Api.DECODE_UTF8

Description

If 1 Standards.JSON.decode_utf8() will be used when JSON data is decoded.


Typedef ParamsArg

typedef mapping|Web.Auth.Params Web.Api.Api.ParamsArg

Description

Typedef for a parameter argument


Variable _auth

protected Web.Auth.OAuth2.Client Web.Api.Api._auth

Description

Authorization object.

See also

Web.Auth.OAuth2


Variable _query_objects

protected mapping(int:array(Protocols.HTTP.Query|Callback)) Web.Api.Api._query_objects

Description

The HTTP query objects when running async.


Variable auth

Web.Auth.OAuth2.Client Web.Api.Api.auth

Description

Getter for the authentication object. Most likely this will be a class derived from Web.Auth.OAuth2.Client.

See also

Web.Auth.OAuth2.Client or Web.Auth.OWeb.Auth.Client

Note

Read only


Variable http_request_timeout

int(0..) Web.Api.Api.http_request_timeout

Description

Request timeout in seconds. Only affects async queries.


Variable utf8_decode

bool Web.Api.Api.utf8_decode

Description

If 1 Standards.JSON.decode_utf8() will be used when JSON data is decoded.


Method create

Web.Api.Api Web.Api.Api(string client_id, string client_secret, void|string redirect_uri, void|string|array(string)|multiset(string) scope)

Description

Creates a new Api instance

Parameter client_id

The application ID

Parameter client_secret

The application secret

Parameter redirect_uri

Where the authorization page should redirect back to. This must be fully qualified domain name.

Parameter scope

Extended permissions to use for this authentication.