Usage
rest_api(
base_url,
url_template,
suffix,
status_codes,
delay,
cache = NULL,
query_column,
...
)Arguments
- base_url
(character) The base URL of the API.
- url_template
(character) A template describing how the URL should be constructed from the base URL and input parameters. e.g. <base_url>/
/<input_item>/<search_term>/json.The url will be constructed by replacing the values enclosed in <> with the value from corresponding input parameter of the rest_api object. - suffix
(character) A suffix appended to all column names in the returned result.
- status_codes
(list) Named list of status codes and function indicating how to respond. Should minimally contain a function to parse a successful response for status code 200. Any codes not provided will be passed to httr::stop_for_status().
- delay
(numeric, integer) Delay in seconds between API calls.
- cache
(annotation_database, NULL) A struct cache object that contains parsed responses to previous api queries. If not using a cache then set to NULL. The default is
NULL.- query_column
(character) The name of a column in the annotation table containing values to search in the api call.
- ...
Additional slots and values passed to
struct_class.
Value
A rest_api object with the following output slots:
updated | (annotation_source) The annotation_source after adding data returned by the API. |
Inheritance
A rest_api object inherits the following struct classes: rest_api() ⭢ model() ⭢ struct_class()
See also
Other REST API's:
classyfire_lookup,
kegg_lookup,
lipidmaps_lookup,
mwb_compound_lookup