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James_124570
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Jun 01, 2015

What scripting language is best with iControl Rest

Hello All,   What is the best scripting language to use with iControl Rest. I am not very familiar with cURL or C, so I am open, just wanted to know what others are using.   Thanks!  
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Jun 03, 2015

I'll ditto Michael's comments. It depends on your platform. If you are on Windows, the PowerShell is a good choice. For non-windows systems, it depends on your skills. I'm like Node.js lately as has JSON/etc built in but you can use JSON packages in most of the other main languages out there (perl, python, etc).

 

If you just want to use a shell (sh, bash, etc) with curl, then the jq command line tool is pretty helpful in parsing JSON responses. http://stedolan.github.com/jq

 

Good luck!