Tag: curl

Simple and Second Web Servers in Node.js

I am about to call it a day. It is dark and cold (25 F) in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. I am in my office attempting to finish this post while my wife is upstairs in the living room wrapped in a blanket. Tomorrow morning we will wake up to a balmy 12 F. What else can I say?

I am reading and experimenting with the content of the book “Get Programming with Node.js” by Jonathan Wexler. I am currently on page 55. Expect to be done with towards the end of next month. At that time I will switch to experiment with Deno. Then I will move on to generate and post a first pass of a storage server. It should be a lot of fun. Continue reading “Simple and Second Web Servers in Node.js”

REST API

It is another average fall day in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. It is sunny and cold. Two more days for the weekend; not that it matters because we are still in the COVID-19 pandemic. That said things appear to be getting better. Hopefully a vaccine will be available soon and we will all get into a new normal.

I am still reading the book Hacker’s Delight by Henry Warren. I have a couple more chapters that I would like to finish before putting it down and starting Get Programming with Node.js by Jonathan Wexler. As I mentioned a few months ago, I will be working on a storage project for my blog. I will start with the APIs and database interface. I decided to use MongoDB for the metadata and the file system for the data. The server part code will be implemented using Node.js in JavaScript. After we have the base functionality we will split the software to work on multiple servers. Once that is done we will move to place the modules in Docker containers and will manage them with Kubernetes. Once all is well, I will see if we can move it to the Azure cloud. After that we will create and integrate additional features. Continue reading “REST API”

Basic RESTful Service – Part I

One can use different programming languages, frameworks and libraries to develop a RESTful web server which exposes the same API. In this post I will implement a RESTful server using JavaScript, Express, and npm libraries.

Given that one needs to start with some level of requirements, we will use the following short and simple statement:

“Implement a very simple RESTful API for a storage server that supports store, query, retrieve and delete operations using DICOM data”. Continue reading “Basic RESTful Service – Part I”

A Simple API

I always like to spend some time reviewing and learning new stuff before starting a project or task. The amount of time depends on the urgency of the task. In this case I went over chapter 2 of RESTful Web APIs by Leonard Richardson and Mike Amundsen.

As I have mentioned several times, I like to research a think about the task, implement a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and with the remaining time enhance the software until the scheduled time runs out. Based on my experience, this approach is welcomed by most customers and development teams. When I say research and think, depending on the level and type of the task (e.g., architecting, designing, implementing), such activities may take from an hour or so to several days or weeks. The time is greatly reduced when you constantly read and experiment and when the task is implementation (i.e., generating and testing code). Continue reading “A Simple API”

Curl to call RESTful API

In this post I will perform some basic interactions with a RESTful service running on ASP.NET written in C#. I will access the RESTful server using the cURL (a.k.a. curl) command line interface. On a future post I will access the curl API using the C# programming language to illustrate its use. Continue reading “Curl to call RESTful API”