source: gnome-systemd/platform/librest.xml@ 5b142c19

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   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY librest-download-http "&gnome-download-http;/rest/0.7/rest-&librest-version;.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY librest-download-ftp  "&gnome-download-ftp;/rest/0.7/rest-&librest-version;.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY librest-md5sum        "abd6211788b9b8dac432a26767099a27">
  <!ENTITY librest-size          "316 KB">
  <!ENTITY librest-buildsize     "7.0 MB">
  <!ENTITY librest-time          "0.2 SBU">
]>

<sect1 id="librest" xreflabel="librest-&librest-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="librest.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>librest-&librest-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="librest">
    <primary sortas="a-librest">librest</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to librest</title>

    <para>
      <application>librest</application> was designed to make it easier to access
      web services that claim to be "RESTful". It includes convenience wrappers
      for libsoup and libxml to ease remote use of the RESTful API.
    </para>

    &lfs75_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&librest-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&librest-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &librest-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &librest-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &librest-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &librest-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">librest Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="cacerts"/> and
      <xref linkend="libsoup"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="gobject-introspection"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="gtk-doc"/>
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
      <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/librest"/>
    </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of librest</title>

    <para>
      Install <application>librest</application> by running the following
      commands:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.
    </para>

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          None
        </seg>
        <seg>
          librest-0.7.so and librest-extras-0.7.so
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /usr/include/rest-0.7 and
          /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/rest-0.7
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="librest-0.7">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">librest-0.7.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            contains the RESTful Web API Query functions.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="librest librest-0.7">
            <primary sortas="c-librest-0.7">librest-0.7.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="librest-extras-0.7">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">librest-extras-0.7.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            contains extra RESTful Web API Query functions.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="librest librest-extras-0.7">
            <primary sortas="c-librest-extras-0.7">librest-extras-0.7.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>