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[henningSaul]

Hi,
I am looking into integrating a new channel with a third party RESTful service that requires HTTP PUT requests for certain operations.

Do you have an update on this feature request, Joel?

Does anybody else know of a working solution or workaround for HTTP PUT, possibly using roStreamSocket as suggested by kbenson?

Thanks
--Henning

[RokuJoel]

Looking into the status. It appears that our sister company BrightSign implemented it, not sure if we did on our end, the bug is still open.

- Joel

[marcelo_cabral]

I also would really appreciate this to be implemented.

[henningSaul]

Hi Joel,

any update on this?

Thanks
--Henning

[RokuJoel]

Do you have some examples of popular APIs where this would be of value? Hard to get something built if only a few obscure APIs require PUT and DELETE.

- Joel

[gonzotek]

"RokuJoel" wrote:
Do you have some examples of popular APIs where this would be of value? Hard to get something built if only a few obscure APIs require PUT and DELETE.

- Joel

How about the Google Data apis? Don't get much bigger than that.
https://developers.google.com/gdata/articles/using_cURL

Plus, they are basic HTTP verbs, and you never know when the next up-and-coming api will require them.

[RokuJoel]

good one, thanks.

- Joel

[brentonhouse]

I second that request! There are a lot of REST services out there now (including a lot of developers that are probably creating their own now). I would be very nice to have built-in support for this!

[henningSaul]

Hi Joel,

there's a ton of REST based APIs out there and I'm sure a lot them use PUT:
http://www.programmableweb.com/apis/dir ... rt=mashups

IMHO supporting PUT (and possibly DELETE) would facilitate the development of channels beyond the traditional "media consumption" use cases.

--Henning

[RokuJoel]

It turns out that the SetRequest method of roURLtransfer supports this:

http=createobject("roURLTransfer")
http.setRequest("PUT")

This is now published in the online SDK:
http://sdkdocs.roku.com/display/sdkdoc/ ... eqasString

- Joel