If you use a web application, such as the JavaScript (HTML 5) version of Messagee (see HTML 5 example - Messagee), you can easily see the equivalent Curl syntax for each API call that the web application makes. The calls are displayed in the console area of any of the following browsers: Chrome, Internet Explorer (in the debugger), Firefox (in Firebug), and Safari.
This is possible because web applications such as the JavaScript version of Message takes advantage of a JavaScript SDK provied by Apigee (see JavaScript HTML5 SDK) to issue App Services API calls. The SDK automatically translates each API call into a Curl command, which is displayed in the console. If you use any web application that is built on the JavaScript SDK, you can view the applications API's calls in Curl syntax.
The admin portal is another example of a web application that is built on the JavaScript SDK and issues App Services API calls from JavaScript. When a user clicks a button in the admin portal, such as “Users”, the admin portal makes an API request to retrieve the appropriate data. In addition, the JavaScript SDK in the web application automatically translates the API call into the following Curl command:
curl -X GET "https://api.usergrid.com/edort1/sandbox/users?ql=order%20by%20username”
The request retrieves the users in the application and orders the result by username.
If you turn on the JavaScript console, here’s what it displays for the call. This example shows the JavaScript console display in the Chrome browser. You can turn on the JavaScript console in Chrome by clicking the “wrench” button (customize and control Chrome) and then selecting Tools > JavaScript console.
Notice that in addition to displaying the API call in Curl syntax, the console displays the time to retrieve the user entities.
To display the JavaScript console in Internet Explorer, you need to turn on the debugger. You do that by selecting F12 developer tools in the tools menu. Here’s what the Curl version of the API call looks like in Internet Explorer’s console.
Here’s what the curl version of the API call looks like in Firefox’s JavaScript console.
You need to have the Firebug tool installed and enabled in your Firefox browser to view the curl commands in the console.
And here’s what the API call looks like in the Safari console. The console is part of Safari’s Web Inspector tool (https://developer.apple.com/technologies/safari/developer-tools.html).
