CURL to Xojo URLConnection formatting

General Programming
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How would I translate this CURL command into a URLConnection command?
curl -X GET -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer b7d03a6947b217efb6f3ec3bd3504582" "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets?page=1&per_page=1"

I would think the final command would be:
URLConnection1.Send("GET", "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets?page=1&per_page=1"

And I assume before that command I would do:
URLConnection1.RequestHeader("Authorization") = "Bearer b7d03a6947b217efb6f3ec3bd3504582"
Does the “Bearer” word need to be in there or just the Token?

Do I also need:
URLConnection1.SetRequestContent("", "application/json")
Not sure if I’m passing any RequestContent in this example?

Or do I need additionally/instead of SetRequestContent:
URLConnection1.RequestHeader("Content-Type") = "application/json" ?

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We could easily translate them into Xojo with our MBS Xojo CURL Plugin.

curl.SetOptionHTTPHeader for the headers like Content-Type and Authorization.

CURL from command line to Plugin

3

I usually save MBS for the “tough stuff” :slight_smile:
The rest of the time I’m here to learn by doing it the hard way!

4

There is no efficient way to handle curl with xojo that’s why Christian was mentioning mbs curl. Xojo leaks at that point a bit

5

Yes, “Bearer” is part of the header.

No.

I beg to differ.

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6

Okay let’s make a competition: handle curl with xojo and with java. Guess what?

7

I don’t understand the question.

8

Not sure what you mean, however I think this specific CURL command can be easily translated.
If you disagree, can you please expand on why?

9

Thank you.

Just to clarify - I don’t need anything other than

URLConnection1.RequestHeader("Authorization") = "Bearer b7d03a6947b217efb6f3ec3bd3504582"
URLConnection1.Send("GET", "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets?page=1&per_page=1"
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That should work.

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P.S. Using the libcurl to Xojo binding I linked to before, it would look something like this:

  Dim curl As New cURLClient
  Call curl.EasyItem.SetAuthMethods(CType(libcURL.CURLAUTH.BEARER, Integer))
  Call curl.SetOption(libcURL.Opts.XOAUTH2_BEARER, "b7d03a6947b217efb6f3ec3bd3504582")
  If curl.Get("https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets?page=1&per_page=1") Then
    Dim result As String = curl.GetDownloadedData()
  End If
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Thank you!