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Perl Code Samples

These examples all utilize the LWP::UserAgent module, which must be installed before running them.

GET

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;
# Create a user agent object
use LWP::UserAgent;
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->agent("MyApp/0.1");
# Create a request
my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => 'http://localhost:8080/mws/rest/images');
$req->content_type('application/json');
$req->authorization_basic("admin", "secret");
# Pass request to the user agent and get a response back
my $res = $ua->request($req);
# Check the outcome of the response
if ($res->is_success) {
  print $res->content;
} else {
  print $res->status_line, "n";
}

POST

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;
# Create a user agent object
use LWP::UserAgent;
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->agent("MyApp/0.1");
# Create a request
my $req = HTTP::Request->new(POST => 'http://localhost:8080/mws/rest/images');
$req->content_type('application/json');
$req->authorization_basic("admin", "secret");
$req->content('{"profile":"compute","osVersion":"5","name":"centos5stateless","hypervisor":0,"architecture":"x86_64","osName":"centos","osType":"linux","type":"stateless"}');
# Pass request to the user agent and get a response back
my $res = $ua->request($req);
# Check the outcome of the response
if ($res->is_success) {
  print $res->content;
} else {
  print $res->status_line, "n";
}

PUT

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;
# Create a user agent object
use LWP::UserAgent;
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->agent("MyApp/0.1");
# Create a request
my $req = HTTP::Request->new(PUT => 'http://localhost:8080/mws/rest/images/centos5-stateless');
$req->content_type('application/json');
$req->authorization_basic("admin", "secret");
$req->content('{"osVersion":"5.5"}');
# Pass request to the user agent and get a response back
my $res = $ua->request($req);
# Check the outcome of the response
if ($res->is_success) {
  print $res->content;
} else {
  print $res->status_line, "n";
}

DELETE

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;
# Create a user agent object
use LWP::UserAgent;
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->agent("MyApp/0.1");
# Create a request
my $req = HTTP::Request->new(DELETE => 'http://localhost:8080/mws/rest/images/centos5-stateless');
$req->content_type('application/json');
$req->authorization_basic("admin", "secret");
# Pass request to the user agent and get a response back
my $res = $ua->request($req);
# Check the outcome of the response
if ($res->is_success) {
  print $res->content;
} else {
  print $res->status_line, "n";
}