HttpHelper: add method for http post request about freedomotic

[nitram509]

Hi,

I don't want to be the devil's advocate here, but I wonder, what's the use case?
Or, who uses it?

Regards
Martin

[mcicolella]

@nitram509 thanks for your answer. For example you could use a POST request in a plugin to publish on a cloud platform as ThingSpeak. Anyway the idea is to make the helper as general as possible with all the options for users.

[bhdrkn]

Starting working on this. But this helper creating HttpClient for each request. It is not a good way to use, but i will keep it as it is. You may want to consider creating a refactoring issue.

[mcicolella]

There is already a pull request for this issue. Please check and verify it for any integration. Thanks

[bhdrkn]

@mcicolella thanks for heads up. I checked the pull request and it does not contain post method. @nitram509 if you are not going to implement this, I am willing to do it. Please let me know.

[nitram509]

@bhdrkn Feel free to go ahead with implementing POST.

To be honest, I don't see that much value in implementing a helper function, without any concrete need.
Please don't get me wrong here. I'm not against such helper functions in general, but without any concrete use case or scenario I simply don't know, how the method should look like and what are its responsibilities.

Regards
Martin

[mcicolella]

@nitram509 @bhdrkn We have some plugins to control domotic boards with an embedded webserver. Commands are sent as HTTP requests and the status (e.g. relais ON/OFF) is checked by parsing an XML file. Many times the webserver requires authentication.
The helper makes simpler to manage this tasks.