matador::http::client Class Reference

A http client class. More...

#include <http_client.hpp>

Public Member Functions
	client (const std::string &host)
response	get (const std::string &route)
response	post (const std::string &route, const std::string &body)
response	put (const std::string &route, const std::string &body)
response	remove (const std::string &route)

Detailed Description

A http client class.

This class represents a http client connection. The class is initialized with the remote endpoint url consisting of a hostname or ip address and optional a port <host[:port]>.

It provides the four main http commands

• GET
• PUT
• POST
• DELETE

Once on of the four command is called via provided method a connection is established and the request is send synchronously.

Once the answer is received and processed a response object is returned.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

client()

matador::http::client::client ( const std::string &  host )

explicit

Creates a client for the given host

Parameters

host	Host and optional port string

Member Function Documentation

get()

response matador::http::client::get

(

const std::string &

route

)

Sends a GET request to the given route at the configured host.

Parameters

route

Route to be requested

Returns

The response of the request

post()

response matador::http::client::post	(	const std::string &	route,
		const std::string &	body
	)

Sends a POST request to the given route at the configured host with the given body as string.

Parameters

route	Route to be requested
body	String representing the body of the request

Returns

The response of the request

put()

response matador::http::client::put	(	const std::string &	route,
		const std::string &	body
	)

Sends a PUT request to the given route at the configured host with the given body as string.

Parameters

route	Route to be requested
body	String representing the body of the request

Returns

The response of the request

remove()

response matador::http::client::remove

(

const std::string &

route

)

Sends a DELETE request to the given route at the configured host.

Parameters

route

Route to be requested

Returns

The response of the request

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• matador/http/http_client.hpp