[mythtv-users] Frontend Service API change in 0.28

[Daniel Frey]

On Sat, Apr 18, 2015, 12:15 AM George Nassas <gnassas at mac.com> wrote:

> > On Apr 17, 2015, at 10:53 PM, dennis <deg at outlook.com> wrote:
> >
> > I upgraded my family room mythbox to 0.28 and noticed that some of the
> frontend service APIs now require data to be posted.      For example,  I
> could send a message to the frontend previously from a browser:
> >
> >
> http://10.0.0.101:6547/Frontend/SendMessage?Message=Shut+It+Off+and+go+to+bed
> ( I actually have a bookmark for this )
> >
> > Is there an easy way to execute the services directly from a browser,
> now that the information must be posted to the web service?   Any idea why
> this changed?
>
> It changed to be properly RESTy - GET requests are for reading data, all
> else is POST, UPDATE, or DELETE. You could create a web page with a bunch
> of forms that have no input fields but buttons that post to URLs like the
> one above. With jQuery you could get fancier, depends on your idea of easy,
> but anyway forms are the browser way to do post requests.
>
> - George
>
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Add  REST client to chrome or Firefox. Search their respective addon
managers. There are a bunch of them and some work in both browsers.

Or, put them in a script using curl to do the posts.
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