crest 0.0.1

Description:

crest 0.0.1

A generic CLI to access any RESTful service with a little bit of configuration.
Think of it as something in between curl and proper CLI.

Features:

Replace parts of JSON request body while sending the request using simple object.property[index] notation
Print only part of JSON response using above described notation
History: Previously sent request are stored and can be resent using --last option
Templates: Store preset requests of a particular URL and send them using --template option
Service config: Store common headers, URL prefix, preset requests of a particular service in config

It has options similar to curl to fetch and provide request body. -d, -H and -d are
same as curl. -X is changed to -m. Currently, the tool uses requests to send
HTTP requests. In future, it may just be wrapper on top of curl delegating all options to
curl.


Sample usage:
With following configuration in ~/.crest/raxid/config.py:
tokens_request = {
"auth": {
"passwordCredentials":{
"username":"REPLACE_USERNAME",
"password":"REPLACE_PASSWORD"
}
}
}
config = {
"name": "raxid",
"description": "Rackspace Identity Service",
"uriprefix": "https://identity.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2.0",
"headers": {
"accept": "application/json",
"content-type": "application/json"
},
"resources": {
"tokens/?$": {
"templates": {"default": tokens_request},
"aliases": {
"username": "auth.passwordCredentials.username",
"password": "auth.passwordCredentials.password",
},
"help": "Authenticate via username/password"
}
}
}
one can authenticate to Rackspace Identity Service
and extract token using following command:
crest -s raxid tokens -m post -t -r username=myuname -r password=mypwd -o access.token.id
For more details check usage


Installation
pip install crest
mkdir -p ~/.crest/generic_history # for --history and --service to work


Thanks
Thanks to Rackspace for having a culture of hacking on side projects and allowing me to work on this, and having an
excellent open source employee contribution policy