Re: using a web service from Ada

[tonyg <tonythegair@gmail.com>]

On Mar 13, 7:43 pm, Vadim Godunko <vgodu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 13, 7:10 pm, tonyg <tonytheg...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Mar 12, 8:23 pm, Gautier write-only <gautier_niou...@hotmail.com>
> > wrote:
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> > > On Mar 12, 7:40 pm, tonyg <tonytheg...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > I want to access a web service from ada (specifically the 5 day
> > > > prediction from the weather channel). I am reading trough the
> > > > documentation of aws and I would really appreciate an example from the
> > > > http client point of view. I've looked at the examples of aws and I'm
> > > > a bit overwhelmed. Anyone got an example?
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> > > Here is one:
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> > > with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO;
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> > > with AWS.Client;
> > > with AWS.Response;
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> > > procedure HTTP_Request is
> > > begin
> > >    Put_Line (AWS.Response.Message_Body (AWS.Client.Get (URL => "http://
> > > gautiersblog.blogspot.com/")));
> > > end HTTP_Request;
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> > > HTH
> > > G.
>
> > wow thanks thats seems easy. Any tips on processing the xml results?
>
> There are two options: XmlAda and XML processor of Matreshka.

I know its lazy but its a one off job so I'm using the above aws
http_request method and the ada.strings.fix index function to locate
my data. I had some trouble understanding how to use the adaxml
library to do what I wanted.