The rest package contains a library that was designed to make it easier to access web services that claim to be "RESTful". It includes convenience wrappers for libsoup and libxml to ease remote use of the RESTful API.
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Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/rest/0.9/rest-0.9.1.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/rest/0.9/rest-0.9.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: b997b83232be3814a1b78530c5700df9
Download size: 72 KB
Estimated disk space required: 3.2 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU (with tests)
JSON-GLib-1.6.6, libsoup-3.2.2, and make-ca-1.12
Gi-DocGen-2023.1, libadwaita-1.2.1 and gtksourceview5-5.6.2 (to build the demo), and Vala-0.56.3
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/rest
Install rest by running the following commands:
mkdir build &&
cd build &&
meson --prefix=/usr \
--buildtype=release \
-Dexamples=false \
-Dgtk_doc=false .. &&
ninja
To test the results, issue: ninja test.
Now, as the root user:
ninja install
--buildtype=release:
Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as
the default may produce unoptimized binaries.
-Dgtk_doc=false: Remove
this option if Gi-DocGen-2023.1 is installed and you wish
to build and install the API documentation. If this option is
removed, as the root user, fix the
installed directory name with the mv
/usr/share/doc/{librest-1.0,rest-0.9.1} command.
-Dexamples=false: Remove
this option if libadwaita-1.2.1 and gtksourceview5-5.6.2 are installed and
you wish to build the demonstration application provided by this
package.
-Dvapi=true: Use this switch if
Vala-0.56.3 is installed and you wish to build
the Vala bindings provided by this package.