In this blog post, I explain why you may want to use curl command in your Jenkinsfile, how to catch curl response and store it in a variable, as well as how to read HTTP response status code and extract some data from the JSON document. Enjoy!
Have you ever wondered, what is the most convenient way to parse JSON data in the Unix/Linux command line? For instance, how to parse some information from the curl JSON response? Grep? No, thank you. There is a better tool for that. And it’s called jq.
Ratpack is an excellent tool for building RESTful[1] applications. However, to benefit most of it, we need to know the tool a little bit better. It applies to Ratpack handler’s mechanism - it is much different compared to what we have learned by using many popular MVC frameworks. In today’s blog post I would like to show you a relatively simple example that confused many newcomers.