World: r3wp

http://support.grouplogic.com/?p=1607

I used this one.

but I see yours is better

Any gotchas when posting xml via read/cutom [post "<my xml>"]  ?

I'm getting a "REST method is not defined" response.

that will depend how the server wants the post data...

maybe some kind of REST header needs to be sent as well?

not an expert on REST interfaces... though I am using one with a 
server right now...

are you sure your URL is built accoring to the server's specs?

also might want to make sure the content-type is set to: "application/xml"

(in the header)

IIRC you also need to name your post data...

complete example, something like:

header: [Content-Type: "application/xml"]
name: "get-info"

read/custom reduce ['post rejoin [ "value=" your-xml-data "&"] 'header 
header]

oops 


read/custom reduce ['post rejoin [ name "=" your-xml-data "&"] 'header 
header]

name "=" your-xml-data ??

like I said it depends on the server but most servers expect a form-like 
post data.

where name is the name of the variable which stores the xml and your-xml-data 
is, obviously, your xml file content.


you might also need to url-encode the xml-data so it gets read properly 
at the other end.

of xml?

eh not sure what that refers to, but I guess you refer to "which 
stores the xml" ?

name is the argument name, like you would specify in a form.

(or a url, if it where a get)

the api of the server might also tell you to put some values in the 
URL to specify the function you are accessing on the server, some 
prefer that in the post data, its all very site specific.

yeah.. i don't think i have enough info i the api

GET works fine

it asks for the function be the first xml tag ie: <restmethod>

and then chokes.. im thinking it the rest header is lacking somehow.. 
but if it's asking for just xml, where would I shove it? I would 
think the rebol custom 'post' would do that.. but yeah, probably 
needs the Content-Type: "application/xml" .. ?

It's this kind of verbose nonsense that should have been left behind 
in the last century.

so you should probably have to give a name to the parameter which 
is followed by the xml data  ex:

postdata=<restmethod><sometag>value</sometag></restmethod>

it doesn't specify

I can try with SOAP api provided, but i get the feeling it's going 
to be just as much of a time sink.

for example, I did an interface for the meetup.com site in an hour, 
but their API docs are VERY well done and its really simple.

is this a pubic site?

(but you need a paying account for it to be any usefull, cause its 
bound to the account number)

not public

do you have a client that works inside a browser?

I'll stick with GET for now.. thanks for your help
(no)

you can try something devious, using rebol.  :-)

(send you a pm)

(send you a pm)

hmm

-you open a tcp listen port
-edit the hosts file so your remote server points to 127.0.0.1

-and then just print out the data which the client would have sent 
to the server.


this works for just about every networked application I have tried 
and is a very powerfull way to learn how to build custom clients 
in rebol

could use wireshark i suppose

yep good point

Cyphre made this new FORM-DECIMAL function. I've been allowed to 
share it, so it can be tested:

form-decimal: func [
	num cifre
	/local m n o p result
][
	p: ""
	result: either find num: form num #"e" [
		parse num [
			any [copy m to "." skip] copy n to "E" skip o: (
				all [
					not m
					m: n
					n: ""
				]
				if m/1 = #"-" [
					m: copy next m
					p: "-"
				]
				z: (length? m) + to-integer o
				result: to-string reduce either negative? z [
					["0." (head insert/dup copy "" "0" abs z) m n]
				][
					o: join m n
					["" o (head insert/dup copy "" "0" (z - length? o))]
				]
			)
		]
		result
	][
		num
	]
	result: parse result "."
	o: result/1
	o: skip tail result/1 -3
	while [not head? o][insert o #"." o: skip o -3]
	all [
		not result/2
		insert tail result ""
	]
	result/2: copy/part result/2 cifre
	insert/dup tail result/2 "0" cifre - length? result/2
	all [cifre > 0 insert next result ","]
	all [result/1/1 = #"0" p: ""]
	join p result
]

Have you seen Gabriele's version?

The fact it uses the name "cifre" suggest it is related to Gab's 
vesion!

What's that ? (seems messy at first glance)
With which params is that supposed to work ?

decimal! and integer!

where the latter specifies the number of decimal places

The task is to convert from scientific notation to numbers only

I just have the feeling that it should be done with only few lines

*could be

Graham, this is a replacement for Gabriele's version. This one is 
more complete.

The primary issue is overcoming REBOL's varying usage of scientific 
notation. That's one reason it's so big (but still smaller than Gabriele's).