Post a rudimentary Caliper event to an endpoint. Assumes USER and HOSTNAME environment variables are available.

caliper_post.sh

#!/bin/sh --

NOW=$(date -u +"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ") # ISO 8601 format, UTC
CURL_STDIN='@-' # cURL's notation for stdin

curl "https://endpoint.example.org/caliper" \
--request POST \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
--capath /etc/pki/tls/certs/ \
--data ${CURL_STDIN} << EOT
{
  "sensor":"${USER}_curl",
  "sendTime":"${NOW}",
  "data":[
    {
      "@context":"http://purl.imsglobal.org/ctx/caliper/v1/Context",
      "@type":"http://purl.imsglobal.org/caliper/v1/SessionEvent",
      "actor":{
        "@id":"https://${HOSTNAME}/person/${USER}",
        "@context":"http://purl.imsglobal.org/ctx/caliper/v1/Context",
        "@type":"http://purl.imsglobal.org/caliper/v1/lis/Person"
      },
      "eventTime":"${NOW}",
      "action":"http://purl.imsglobal.org/vocab/caliper/v1/action#LoggedIn"
    }
  ]
}
EOT

@arwhyte, @pushyamig: This is great for testing connectivity to an endpoint. OAuth support will be added later.