REST to spark core

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Hello,
Is the Spark Core able to receive Web Service requests (REST http requests) .
I mean the spark core will listen to such requests ?
I know the spark can send Http requests, but is it able to receive ?

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hi @michealgroiser,

if you give us more information we can answer or could you explain what do you want to do ?

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I want to build a web server which will send messages to the Spark Core to perform some action.

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If you’re okay with using the cloud? Then yeah, definitely! Check out the tutorial section on the forum for some awesome tutorials on how to do just that (with Javascript/JQuery I believe)

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Hi @michaelgroiser,

Checkout the API docs here for information on the REST interface:

http://docs.spark.io/api/

And there are lots of wrappers for the cloud api as well, here’s one that came out recently if you happen to be using Node.js or client-side javascript - https://www.npmjs.com/package/spark

Thanks,
David

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As far as I can tell, this answer or these docs do not clearly represent how to use the Spark/Photon as an endpoint to receive a request. It has a lot of information about sending them.

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If you’re okay with using the cloud, those docs should suffice for sending data to the device. The series also TCP/UDP without the cloud, and the HTTP(S) library which you could check out.

What exactly are you trying to achieve?

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@Moors7 , I believe the OP is asking if the Core/Photon acts as an endpoint for REST calls. I believe the answer is no. The cloud acts as the endpoint and queries the Core/Photon to responde to the REST request. I hope I got that right.

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I dunno… Looking at the available libraries, there are a couple that catch my eye. In particular, “Webserver” and “Spark-web-embd-rest-json”. At a quick glance, those both look like they’re designed to let the Core/Photon handle an incoming http request…

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