Using the Python httplib2 to connect to MarkLogic's ReST API

httplib2-ml.py

import httplib2

h = httplib2.Http()
h.add_credentials('username', 'password')

TIMESTAMP_URI = "http://localhost:8001/admin/v1/timestamp"
REST_URI = "http://localhost:8002/LATEST/rest-apis"
BODY = body = ""
ACCEPT_JSON = headers = {'Accept': 'application/json'}
ACCEPT_XML = headers = {'Accept': 'application/xml'}


def print_http_response(uri, verb, req_body, header):
    response_header, response_body = h.request(uri, verb, req_body, header)
    print(response_header, "\n", response_body, "\n", "----")

print_http_response(TIMESTAMP_URI, "GET", BODY, ACCEPT_XML)
print_http_response(REST_URI, "GET", BODY, ACCEPT_JSON)
print_http_response(REST_URI, "GET", BODY, ACCEPT_XML)