Re: A (probably silly) problem with request.el

[John Mastro <john.b.mastro@gmail.com>]

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> wrote:
> OK, so I have now another (though related) problem.  What I want is to
> write a function which will accept the url, feed it to =request=, and
> /return/ the json-translated-to-sexp result.  I tried this:
>
> (require 'request-deferred)
>
> (deferred:$
>   (request-deferred "http://httpbin.org/get" :parser 'json-read)
>   (deferred:nextc it
>     (lambda (response)
>       (request-response-data response))))
>
> (slightly modified from http://tkf.github.io/emacs-request/manual.html),
> but it didn't seem to work.  (It just returns the struct, not the sexp.)
> Unfortunately, I do not really understand request's (nor deferred's)
> docs well enough to be able to debug it myself.  Any hints?

Try this:

(defun my-request-get (url &optional params)
  (request-response-data (request
                          url
                          :params params
                          :parser #'json-read
                          :sync t)))

If you essentially don't want the request to be asyncronous, then I
think `:sync t' is the way to go.

-- 
john