Bash function for hitting the PuppetDB API, for when you want to use PQL but don't have the cli tool installed

pql.bash

function pql {
  tmpfile=$(mktemp)
  status_code=$(curl --silent --output /dev/stderr --write-out "%{http_code}" -XGET localhost:8080/pdb/query/v4 -d "query=$1" 2>$tmpfile)
  if [ "$status_code" = "200" ]; then
    jq $3 "$2" $tmpfile
  else
    cat $tmpfile
  fi
  rm $tmpfile
}