Question
Working with long DIgitalOcean API commands
- Posted on February 1, 2018
- APIUbuntu 16.04
Asked by benqzq
I have this very long and heavy DigitalOcean API command to rebuild droplet (I have a mistake there which I’m trying to figure out but it’s just for example to longevity problem).
I think it would be better of to work with multi-lined, because in one long row it’s just extremely uncomfortable to maintain. For example, look how long this one liner is:
curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer 81206074d17245ba5d106d788b9edfea9947b1712ab47efgd6888e67f2e79957" -d '{"type":"rebuild","image":"ubuntu-16-04-x64"}' "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets/3164450/actions"
Maybe it’s best to do:
curl -X POST \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer 81206074d17245ba5d106d788b9edfea9947b1712ab47efgd6888e67f2e79957" \
-d '{"type":"rebuild","image":"ubuntu-16-04-x64"}' \
"https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets/3164450/actions"
Maybe something extra (a bash function? a Bash script?)
Please share any tip, thanks!
P.S. I’ve already deleted that token, I just gave it for the example here.
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Breaking it up into multiple lines definitely makes it more readable and easier to understand. You might also be interested in looking at the doctl command line tool. The same command using it would be:
If you’re are using it in a script, you can also pass
--output jsonin order to have the same JSON response you would receive using cURL.