Time for action – performing a GET request

You will learn to create a GET request using the RESTClient tool we have downloaded in the previous section to retrieve the document with the ID = Orders/A655302 from the Orders database and view it. (We created the Orders database in Chapter 2, RavenDB Management Studio.)

1. If it is not already open, double-click on the RESTClient tool's JAR file in order to launch it.

2. Click on the Method tab and select the GET HTTP method.

3. In the HTTP Request section, enter this URL: http://localhost:8080/databases/orders/docs/orders/a655302.

   

   Note

   To perform this GET request, we don't need to change any of the Header or the Body, or other parameters.

4. Click on the green Go! button to send your first request to the server.

What just happened?

You just created your first GET request to retrieve the order document with the ID Orders/A655302 from the Orders database directly by using the RavenDB HTTP API.

Let's have a look at the server response and analyze it. The first thing...