Simple Examples of Invoking Rest Endpoints with Powershell

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Simple GET example
$response = Invoke-RestMethod 'http://example.com/api/people'
# assuming the response was in this format { "items": [] }
# we can now extract the child people like this
$people = $response.items
GET with custom headers example
$headers = New-Object "System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary[[String],[String]]"
$headers.Add("X-DATE", '9/29/2014')
$headers.Add("X-SIGNATURE", '234j123l4kl23j41l23k4j')
$headers.Add("X-API-KEY", 'testuser')

$response = Invoke-RestMethod 'http://example.com/api/people/1' -Headers $headers
PUT/POST example
$person = @{
    first='joe'
    lastname='doe'
}
$json = $person | ConvertTo-Json
$response = Invoke-RestMethod 'http://example.com/api/people/1' -Method Put -Body $json -ContentType 'application/json'
DELETE example
$response = Invoke-RestMethod 'http://example.com/api/people/1' -Method Delete