Advanced REST client API

API it's a big word for that but in some part you can call it an API :)

If you are an author of an extension and  you would like to use my application now it is possible.
When your application would like to open a request data in Advanced REST client you have two possibilities:

1. using chrome message passing system
2. using webIntents (you don't need to have a chrome extension)

You just need to pass request object with following data:

"payload" (required) - message payload: 

• "create" to open new application window with values; 
• other payloads may be available in future

"data" - (required) javascript object with any of values:

• url - (String) request URL to set
• method - (String) request method to set
• headers - (String) an RFC string representing request headers example:
  >>> User-Agent: X-Extension
  X-header: header value; second value <<< 
• payload - (String) data to pass into payload field. Only for http methods that carry payload data
• encoding - (String) data form encoding

Example of usage:

var message = { 
   'payload': 'create', 
   'data': { 
       'url': 'http://www.google.com/', 
       'method': 'GET', 
       'headers': "User-Agent: Chrome-Extension\nX-extension-id: SomeID" 
    } 
};
Via extensions message passing system:




chrome.extension.sendMessage("hgmloofddffdnphfgcellkdfbfbjeloo", message, function(response) {});


Using webIntents:


window.Intent = window.Intent || window.WebKitIntent;
window.navigator.startActivity = window.navigator.startActivity ||
window.navigator.webkitStartActivity;
 
var params = { 
   "action": "http://webintents.org/view", 
   "type": "application/restclient+data" , 
   "data": message 
}; 
var i = new WebKitIntent(params); 
var onSuccess = function(data) { console.log(data); };
var onFailure = function() { console.log('intent error'); };
navigator.webkitStartActivity(i, onSuccess, onFailure);

For more information check trunk: http://code.google.com/p/chrome-rest-client/source/browse/trunk/RestClient/war/extension/background.js