Converting command-line cURL where URL is piped to python - php

Question

I have this command-line cURL example:
curl -X PUT -H "X-Auth-Token: $AUTH_TOKEN" \
-d "{\"data\":{\"name\":\"Device1 Callflow\", \"numbers\":[\"1001\"], \"flow\":{\"module\":\"device\",\"data\":{\"id\":\"$DEVICE_ID\"}}}}" \
http://ip.add.re.ss:8000/v2/accounts/$ACCOUNT_ID/callflows | python -mjson.tool
My task is to convert this into a PHP function, where the needed values are passed into the function:
function someFunc($AUTH_TOKEN, $ACCOUNT_ID, $DEVICE_ID, $numbers) {}
Normally, I use this sort of code:
function setLimits($auth_token, $accountID, $feature1_cnt, $feature2_cnt) {
$service_url = "http://ip.add.re.ss:8000/v2/accounts/$accountID/limits";
$data = '{"data":{"feature1": ' . $feature1_cnt . ',"feature2": ' . $feature2_cnt . '}}';
$ch = curl_init($service_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("X-Auth-Token: $auth_token",'Content-Type: application/json', 'Content-Length: ' . strlen($data)));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'POST');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$data);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
if ($response === false) {
$info = curl_getinfo($ch);
curl_close($ch);
die('error occured during curl exec. Additional info: ' . var_export($info));
}
$decoded = json_decode($response);
if (isset($decoded->response->status) && $decoded->response->status == 'ERROR') {
die('error occured: ' . $decoded->response->errormessage);
}
return(true);
}
BUT, for a specific API call, I need to pass this as the service URL:
http://ip.add.re.ss:8000/v2/accounts/$ACCOUNT_ID/callflows | python -mjson.tool
How do I do that?

Answer 1

First, change:
$data = '{"data":{"feature1": ' . $feature1_cnt . ',"feature2": ' . $feature2_cnt . '}}';
to:
$data = [
"data" => [
"feature1" => $feature1_cnt,
"feature2" => $feature2_cnt
]
];
You will make a mistake typing out JSON, and it won't be easy to find or fix.
Second, python -mjson.tool
json.tool [...] to validate and pretty-print:
PHP's JSON validation is pretty much just checking if json_decode() returned NULL, and then you can check json_last_error() and json_last_error_msg() for error info. It is not robust.
You can encode JSON in "pretty-printed" format with:
json_encode($foo, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);
But I can't think of an earthly reason why you would want to do that other than if there are human eyeballs that are going to be looking at it.
Lastly, in answering your question I've realized that I have no actual idea what you're getting at and you really need to clarify why you think you need to do anything you asked about. [other than the validation, I suppose]