POST request with std.net.curl

[Ali Çehreli]

On 7/23/21 11:11 AM, bachmeier wrote:
> I'm writing a D program that interacts with the Todoist API using 
> std.net.curl. It's not a problem to do get requests to query tasks, but 
> I cannot find a way to get post to work to create a new task.
> 
> This is a working bash script, where APIKEY is defined elsewhere and $1 
> and $2 are user input when running the script:
> 
> ```
> curl "https://api.todoist.com/rest/v1/tasks" -X POST --data 
> "{"'"'"content"'"'": "'"'"$1"'"'", "'"'"project_id"'"'": $2}" -H 
> "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIKEY"
> ```
> 
> (For obvious reasons I'm not going to provide a working example.) How 
> can I translate this into a post function call within D?
> 
> [Todoist API 
> Reference](https://developer.todoist.com/rest/v1/?shell#create-a-new-task)

I haven't used it but isn't it the version of post that takes a 
dictionary here?

   https://dlang.org/phobos/std_net_curl.html#.post

If the Authorization is the problem, I wonder whether addRequestHeader 
is the solution:

   https://dlang.org/phobos/std_net_curl.html#.HTTP.addRequestHeader

Ali