has linker error! but this should be a good start on breaking out our changes and web api into a standalone library/namespace

external/3rd/library/webAPI/webAPI.cpp

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+
+#include "webAPI.h"
+
+// if status == success, returns "success", or slotName's contents if specified...
+// otherwise returns the "message" if no success
+std::string simplePost(std::string endpoint, std::string data, std::string slotName)
+{
+	nlohmann::json response = request(endpoint, data, 1);
+	std::string output;
+
+	if (response.count("status") && response["status"].get<std::string>() == "success")
+	{
+		if (slotName && response.count(slotName))
+		{
+			output = response[slotName].get<std::string>();
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			output = "success";
+		}
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		if (j.count("message"))
+		{
+			output = j["message"].get<std::string>();
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			output = "Message not provided by authentication service.";
+		}
+	}
+
+	return output;				
+}
+
+nlohmann::json request(std::string endpoint, std::string data, int reqType, ...)
+{
+	nlohmann::json response;
+
+	if (!endpoint.empty()) //data is allowed to be an empty string if we're doing a normal GET
+	{
+		CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
+
+                if (curl)
+                {
+                        std::string readBuffer;
+
+                        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, endpoint.c_str());
+                        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, WriteCallback);
+                        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, &readBuffer);			
+
+			if (reqType == 1)
+			{
+				curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, data.c_str());
+			}
+
+			CURLcode res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
+
+			if (res == CURLE_OK && !(readBuffer.empty()))
+			{
+                        	response = json::parse(readBuffer);
+			}
+			curl_easy_cleanup(curl); 
+		}
+		else
+		{
+        		response["message"] = "Failed to initialize cURL.";
+        		response["status"] = "failure";
+		}
+	}
+	else
+	{
+        	response["message"] = "Invalid endpoint URL.";
+        	response["status"] = "failure";
+	}
+
+	return response;
+}
+
+// This is used by curl to grab the response and put it into a var
+size_t WriteCallback(void *contents, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *userp)
+{
+        ((std::string*)userp)->append((char*)contents, size * nmemb);
+        return size * nmemb;
+}