Module: MyExperimentREST

Defined in:
lib/myexperiment-rest/authentication.rb,
lib/myexperiment-rest.rb,
lib/myexperiment-rest/user.rb,
lib/myexperiment-rest/workflow.rb,
lib/myexperiment-rest/constants.rb

Overview

require ‘rest_client’

Defined Under Namespace

Modules: Urls Classes: MyExperimentIOData, MyExperimentUser, MyExperimentWorkflow, SessionCookie, User, Workflow

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.get_myexperiment_data(resource_url, params) ⇒ Object

Get information from myExperiment using the REST API. Resources supported currently are WORKFLOW_URL“+ and USER_URL.



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# File 'lib/myexperiment-rest.rb', line 15

def self.get_myexperiment_data(resource_url, params)
  case resource_url

  when Urls::WORKFLOW_URL
    rest_params = { :params => {'id' => "#{params[:id]}",
                                'elements' => 'title,description,content-uri,components,uploader'}
                  }

    # if version is not empty use that one -- otherwise it returns the current version
    if params[:version] && !params[:version].empty? 
      rest_params[:params]['version'] = "#{params[:version]}"
    end

    # if session cookie is not empty it uses simple cookie auth (not secure -- used for demos)
    if params[:session_cookie]
      rest_params[:cookies] = params[:session_cookie]
    end


    # Get workflow resource information
    begin
      response = RestClient.get("#{Urls::MYEXPERIMENT_URL}/#{Urls::WORKFLOW_URL}", rest_params)
    rescue Exception => e
      raise "REST call to acquire workflow resource failed!\n" + e
    end

  when Urls::USER_URL
    begin
      # Get user resource information
      response = RestClient.get("#{Urls::MYEXPERIMENT_URL}/#{Urls::USER_URL}",
                                       {:params => {'id' => "#{params[:id]}" } } )
      response
    rescue Exception => e
      raise "REST call to acquire user resource failed!\n" + e
    end

  else
    raise "This is not a supported resource type!\n"
  end

end