Tutorial 7 -Schema command line

# --- Using CoreAPI to acquire schema of the api --- #

    $ pip install coreapi-cli


# Load the schema of the api

    $ coreapi get http://127.0.0.1:8001/schema/

    ---
    <Pastebin API "http://127.0.0.1:8001/schema/">
        snippets: {
            list([page])
            read(id)
            highlight(id)
        }
        users: {
            list([page])
            read(id)
        }
    ---

# note below the highlight is the method stated in the schema, also the method are belong to the class
# Some of the API endpoints require named parameters.
# For example, to get back the highlight HTML for a particular snippet we need to provide an id.

    $ coreapi action snippets list
    $ coreapi action snippets highlight --param id=1
    $ coreapi action snippets read --param id=1


# Authenticating our client
# Add credentials

    $ coreapi credentials add 127.0.0.1 <username>:<password> --auth basic

        Added credentials
        127.0.0.1 "Basic bWVuZzptZW5nMTIzNA=="

# Reload/Get the page and this time will show you full list

    $ coreapi reload

        <Pastebin API "http://127.0.0.1:8001/schema/">
            snippets: {
                list([page])
                create(code, [title], [linenos], [language], [style])
                read(id)
                update(id, code, [title], [linenos], [language], [style])
                partial_update(id, [title], [code], [linenos], [language], [style])
                delete(id)
                highlight(id)
            }
            users: {
                list([page])
                read(id)
            }

# Now we can create new snippets
     $ coreapi action snippets create --param title="Example" --param code="print('hello, world')"

        {
            "url": "http://127.0.0.1:8001/snippets/3/",
            "id": 3,
            "highlight": "http://127.0.0.1:8001/snippets/3/highlight/",
            "owner": "meng",
            "title": "Example",
            "code": "print('hello, world')",
            "linenos": false,
            "language": "python",
            "style": "friendly"
        }

# and delete snippet
    $ coreapi action snippets delete --param id=3