Merge pull request #116 from Hrittik20/http-post

Add HTTP POST support and Create content docs example

Author: stevepiercy

docs/custom.rst

@@ -93,3 +93,22 @@ The following example updates the content at the specified location.
     {
         "title": "My New Document Title"
     }
+
+
+Create content
+==============
+
+The following example creates content at the specified path with the given JSON body.
+
+..  http:example:: curl plone-client
+
+    POST /Plone/folder HTTP/1.1
+    Host: localhost:8080
+    Content-Type: application/json
+    Accept: application/json
+    Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46YWRtaW4=
+
+    {
+        "@type": "Document",
+        "title": "My New Document"
+    }

docs/plone_client.py

@@ -68,6 +68,17 @@ def patch_content(request: HTTPRequest):
 cli.updateContent({python_to_js_literal(payload)});
 """
 
+def post_content(request: HTTPRequest):
+    url = urlparse(request.url())
+    path = f'/{url.path.split("/", 2)[-1]}'
+    payload = {
+        "path": path,
+        "data": request.data(),
+    }
+    return f"""\
+cli.createContent({python_to_js_literal(payload)});
+"""
+
 
 def build_plone_client_command(request: HTTPRequest):
     url = urlparse(request.url())
@@ -89,4 +100,6 @@ def build_plone_client_command(request: HTTPRequest):
         return output + get_content(request)
     elif request.command == "PATCH":
         return output + patch_content(request)
+    elif request.command == "POST":
+        return output + post_content(request)
     return output