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Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting (Second Edition) - Second Edition

You're reading from  Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting (Second Edition) - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787126305
Pages 440 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
 Brenton J.W. Blawat Brenton J.W. Blawat
Profile icon Brenton J.W. Blawat

Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
1. Introduction to PowerShell 2. Working with PowerShell 3. Modules and Snap-Ins 4. Working with Objects in PowerShell 5. Operators 6. Variables, Arrays, and Hashtables 7. Branching and Looping 8. Working with .NET 9. Data Parsing and Manipulation 10. Regular Expressions 11. Files, Folders, and the Registry 12. Windows Management Instrumentation 13. HTML, XML, and JSON 14. Working with REST and SOAP 15. Remoting and Remote Management 16. Testing 17. Error Handling

Working with REST


A REpresentational State Transfer (REST), it compliant web service allows a client to interact with the service using a set of predefined stateless operations. REST is not a protocol, it is an architectural style.

Whether or not an interface is truly REST-compliant is not particularly relevant when the goal is to use one in PowerShell. Interfaces must be used according to any documentation that has been published.

Invoke-RestMethod

The Invoke-RestMethod command is able to execute methods exposed by web services. The name of a method is part of the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), it is important not to confuse this with the Method parameter. The Method parameter is used to describe the HTTP method. By default, Invoke-RestMethod uses the HTTPGET.

Simple requests

The REST API provided by GitHub may be used to list the repositories made available by the PowerShell team.

The API entry point is https://api.github.com as documented in the reference:

https://developer.github.com/v3...

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