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Hello fellow Monks,

I am working on a small project trying to learn more about REST Web Service. I have completed my back end and I am working on my front end. I was thinking that I should use REST::Client and I have created a small sample of code that works as expected so far.

Sample of code (ClientRest.pm):

package ClientRest;

use Carp;
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

use version;

our $VERSION;
$VERSION = qv('0.0.1');

use JSON;
use REST::Client;

use constant {
    PORT_MIN   => 1,
    PORT_MAX   => 65535,
};

sub new {
    my $class = shift;
    my $self = {
        _host => shift,
    };
    _parameterValidation($self);
    # instatiate Rest::Client and create constructor
    my $client = REST::Client->new({
    host    => $self->{_host},
    timeout => 10, });
    $self->{_client} = $client;
    bless $self, $class;
    return $self;
}

sub _parameterValidation {
    my( $self ) = @_;

    croak "Invalid host syntax: sample 'http://<host>:<port>' "
    unless ( $self->{_host} =~ /^http:\/\/\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\
+d{1,3}\:\d{1,5}$/ );
}

sub getSnippets {
    my ($self) = @_;
    # Simple GET request for testing purposes
    $self->{_client}->GET('/snippets/');
    if (index($self->{_client}->responseContent(), "Can\'t connect to"
+) != -1) {
    my @array = split /[http:\/\/]/, $self->{_host};
    @array = grep { $_ ne '' } @array;
    croak "Server is unavailable at IP: "
        .$array[0]." and Port: "
        .$array[1];
    }
    return decode_json $self->{_client}->responseContent();
}

# Module further implementation here

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Sample of code (restClient.pl):

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;
use MyClientRest::ClientRest;

my $host = "http://127.0.0.1:8000";

# instatiate class
my $object = new ClientRest( $host );

my $data = $object->getSnippets();
print Dumper $data;

__END__

$ perl restClient.pl
$VAR1 = {
          'count' => 2,
          'previous' => undef,
          'next' => undef,
          'results' => [
                         {
                           'highlight' => 'http://127.0.0.1:8000/snipp
+ets/1/highlight/',
                           'language' => 'perl',
                           'id' => 1,
                           'url' => 'http://127.0.0.1:8000/snippets/1/
+',
                           'style' => 'emacs',
                           'code' => 'print "Test POST Request"',
                           'owner' => 'user',
                           'title' => 'Default Title',
                           'linenos' => bless( do{\(my $o = 0)}, 'JSON
+::PP::Boolean' )
                         },
                         {
                           'code' => 'print "Test POST Request"',
                           'owner' => 'user',
                           'title' => 'Test Title',
                           'linenos' => $VAR1->{'results'}[0]{'linenos
+'},
                           'highlight' => 'http://127.0.0.1:8000/snipp
+ets/2/highlight/',
                           'language' => 'perl',
                           'id' => 2,
                           'url' => 'http://127.0.0.1:8000/snippets/2/
+',
                           'style' => 'emacs'
                         }
                       ]
        };
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My problem is that through the documentation I do not see how I can send the username and password that is necessary in some transaction(s). For example I use curl to POST some data:

$ curl -i -X POST -H "Content-Type:application/json" -u user:password 
+http://localhost:8000/snippets/ -d '{
>     "title": "Test Title",
>     "code": "print \"Test POST Request\"",
>     "linenos": false,
>     "language": "perl",
>     "style": "emacs"
> }'
HTTP/1.0 201 Created
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2018 09:14:54 GMT
Server: WSGIServer/0.1 Python/2.7.12
Vary: Accept, Cookie
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 252
Allow: GET, POST, HEAD, OPTIONS

{"url":"http://localhost:8000/snippets/2/","id":2,"highlight":"http://
+localhost:8000/snippets/20/highlight/","owner":"user","title":"Test T
+itle","code":"print \"Test POST Request\"","linenos":false,"language"
+:"perl","style":"emacs"}
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I have found this simple tutorial Writing a REST client in Perl which shows that I can pass the username and password through the header.

Sample of code:

my $headers = {Accept => 'application/json', Authorization => 'Basic '
+ . encode_base64($username . ':' . $password)};
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So I am wondering if there is an alternative solution on how to pass the credentials through the module. I would expect something like a dictionary (pseudo code) user => 'user', pass => 'pass'. Any other recommendations of alternative modules?

Thanks in advance for your time and effort.

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In reply to How to pass credentials through REST::Client by thanos1983

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