Development resources

We’ve collected a few resources to help you integrate your application with SD-WAN.

REST tutorials

If you are not familiar with the REST pattern, read these documents as an introduction.

• http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/other/a-beginners-introduction-to-http-and-rest/
• http://www.infoq.com/articles/rest-introduction
• http://www.restapitutorial.com/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer

Access libraries

A variety of libraries can be used to access the API. Well-known libraries include:

Command line / shell

• HTTPie https://httpie.io//cli
• jq https://stedolan.github.io/jq/

Python

• Requests https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• HTTPX https://www.python-httpx.org/
• urllib https://docs.python.org/3/library/urllib.html

Ruby

• REST Client https://github.com/rest-client/rest-client
• HTTParty https://github.com/jnunemaker/httparty
• NET::HTTP https://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.6.5/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/Net/HTTP.html

Perl

• LWP http://search.cpan.org/~oalders/libwww-perl/lib/LWP.pm

PHP

• cURL http://php.net/manual/en/book.curl.php
• Guzzle: http://docs.guzzlephp.org/en/latest/overview.html
• php-restclient: https://github.com/tcdent/php-restclient
• Httpful: http://phphttpclient.com/