How would you fetch data from a remote REST API during the site build process?

[preslavrachev]

How would you approach the following case - I have a @DataMapper instance, but instead of loading the data from a JSON file, I want to call a remote REST endpoint that would serve the JSON.

At the moment, I call the REST endpoint as part of the build pipeline, and then store the response in a JSON file, leaving the rest to the data plugin. However, I am sure there's probably a better way to do that.

I am open to your suggestions.

[ia3andy]

Hello @preslavrachev, are you using GitHub or is it on something else?

[preslavrachev]

@ia3andy I don't plan on using GitHub for building. At the moment, it's more of an ad-hoc Docker container build process that would build the assets and store them in as hared volume that an Nginx instance can access. That's why the curl fetch is easy to do, but a bit obscure from my perspective.

[ia3andy]

I think your option to curl before is fine then.

An alternative would be to create a CDI bean that gets the Json, or a Rest Client https://quarkus.io/guides/rest-client, it would be available in Qute with {cdi:}