Darren Newton's simple-http library
(https://github.com/DarrenN/simple-http) vastly eases working with REST
APIs and is very much modeled off of the http client libraries you'd expect
to see in other language ecosystems.
For some quick, useful, and opinionated perspective on REST services, I
like to point people to this vignette from the R
community:
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/httr/vignettes/api-packages.html
The httr package works similarly to the simple-http package in R.
As an aside, if any members of the academic Racket community are out there,
I'd humbly submit that the R community would be an ideal place to start
plundering if the goal were ever to grow the Racket ecosystem. While the R
language itself can be a little idiosyncratic (it originally started as a
bunch of Scheme macros I believe), the community is addressing longstanding
challenges in creative, researched ways. When watching the Python and R
data science communities, I find myself feeling that the Python community's
comparative advantage is in being able to write code, while the R
community's comparative advantage is in having the disposition to read
about prior art before writing code. Occasionally both of those skills are
manifest in the same place, producing truly great contributions like ggplot
and dplyr (the httr package mentioned above was similarly well-researched
and executed, but there's is much prior art). I can't help but look at the
ggplot data visualization DSL and the dplyr data manipulation / RDBMS
interaction DSL and think that Racket's facilities couldn't enable
something even more powerful. If I had more time and computer science
know-how, this would surely be my dream task.
Cheers,
Peter
On Wednesday, April 11, 2018 at 11:36:50 AM UTC-7, Paulo Matos wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am interested in developing a Racket wrapper for hetzner cloud rest
> api. This is a REST API defined in:
> https://docs.hetzner.cloud/
>
> I however, have no experience with accessing REST APIs in racket much
> less developing one.
>
> 1. Are there any examples out there of wrapping rest apis in racket?
> 2. If you look at how this is done in Python[1] as expected everything
> is an object. However, from what I generally see, libraries seem to
> rarely touch the racket object system (although I think it's great). So,
> I guess instead of having an object 'Client' to which you would do (send
> client login "username" "password"), is it generally preferable to have
> a (make-client ...), which you would follow with (client-login
> "username" "password")?
>
> Any thoughts would be appreciated before I commit myself, only to find
> it goes against the racket way once I publish it. :)
>
> [1] https://github.com/elsyms/hetznercloud-py/
> --
> Paulo Matos
>
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