Legion::Extensions::Http

A Legion Extension designed to make HTTP requests

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'lex-http'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install lex-http

Adding to Legion

You can manually install with a gem install lex-http command or by adding it into your settings with something like this

{
  "extensions": {
    "http": {
      "enabled": true, "workers": 1
    }
  }
}

Usage

There is only a single runner in this LEX. It can make the following calls

Functions

function	open_timeout	timeout	Port	Params	Body	Host	URI
get	Optional	Optional	80	Optional	Optional	Required	|
post	Optional	Optional	80	Optional	Optional	Required	|
patch	Optional	Optional	80	Optional	Optional	Required	|
put	Optional	Optional	80	Optional	Optional	Required	|
delete	Optional	Optional	80	Optional	Optional	Required	|
options	Optional	Optional	80	Optional	Optional	Required	|
head	Optional	Optional	80	Optional	Optional	Required	|

Example Payloads

{"host": "https://google.com"}

{"host": "https://google.com", "uri": "/", "port": 443}

{"host": "http://192.168.1.1", "uri": "/my_custom_api", "port": 8080, "params": {"foo": "bar"} }

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://bitbucket.org/legion-io/lex-http.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.