Using HttpWrapper

HttpWrapper

Sending a simple http request with a string body

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CurlRequest req;
req.url = "https://httpbin.org/anything";
req.body = "testing with body";

LOG("sending body request");
HttpWrapper::SendCurlRequest(req, [this](int code, std::string result)
{
    LOG("Body result{}", result);
});

Perform an HTTP/S JSON request

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CurlRequest req;
req.url = "https://httpbin.org/anything";
req.body = R"T({
    "userId": 1,
    "id": 1,
    "title": "delectus aut autem",
    "completed": false
})T";

HttpWrapper::SendCurlJsonRequest(req, [this](int code, std::string result)
{
    LOG("Json result{}", result);
});

Sending a file over HTTP/S

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{
CurlRequest req;
req.url = "https://httpbin.org/anything";
req.body = "testing body with file output";

LOG("sending file output body request");
HttpWrapper::SendCurlRequest(req, L"file_output_test.txt", [this](int code, std::wstring result)
{
    LOG("sending file output body request: returned");
});

Downloading a file with download progress callbacks and reading the raw downloaded data

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CurlRequest req;
req.url = "url";
req.progress_function = [](double file_size, double downloaded, ...)
{
    if (file_size != 0)
        LOG("Download progress {:.2f}%", downloaded / file_size * 100);
};

HttpWrapper::SendCurlRequest(req, [this](int code, char* data, size_t size)
{
    std::ofstream out_file {"test_image_raw.jpeg", std::ios_base::binary};
    if (out_file)
        out_file.write(data, size);
});

Downloading a file to the filesystem

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CurlRequest req;
req.url = "url";

LOG("sending raw output image download request");
HttpWrapper::SendCurlRequest(req, L"test_image.jpeg", [this](int code, std::wstring out_path)
{
    LOG("file image download code: {}", code);
});

Sending a request with FormData

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CurlRequest req;
req.url = "url";
req.form_data.push_back(FormField{FormField::Type::kString, "some data", "test_field"});
req.form_data.push_back(FormField{FormField::Type::kFile, "test_file.txt", "test_file"});

LOG("sending post request with fields (both file and string)");
HttpWrapper::SendCurlRequest(req, [this](int code, std::string res)
{
    LOG("Post result: {}", res);
});

Written by Martinn