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HttpService:RequestAsync

Is this what I think it is?

[Irreflexive]

Had the very same thought when I saw that

[DurstAuric (Durst)]

Ohohoh, RequestAsync? Dark theme? Things are starting to look nice here.

[XAXA]

Is it just me, or does pressing ESC not work in studio (play solo and test server)?

[Kampfkarren (boyned)]

This is happening to me too.

[XAXA]

Found a bug report and a solution:

Hitting escape doesn't open up the menu

Do you have the Studio setting ‘Respect Studio shortcuts when game has focus’ enabled?

[drager980]

“Fix an issue with mouse cursor locking in place when holding the right mouse button or middle mouse button down when the CameraType is Scriptable and Lua camera implementations are being used.”
feelsgoodman

[Extuls]

Notices studio dark theme isn’t under improvements.

For real though, at least it’s coming. Very happy with what’s to come.

[Mah_Bucket]

I think you mean

[Maximum_ADHD]

Yup

[Kiansjet]

I’m a bit confused on RequestAsync’s function/purpose. Can anyone provide a use case?

[Flowtonio]

This thread might clarify:

HttpService should support requests for RESTful-based APIs

ROBLOX allowing users to perform Http requests was a huge improvement to the platform. However, ROBLOX skipped the implementation of two very important HTTP methods - PUT and DELETE. A lot of modern day Web APIs use these methods to update and delete data, instead of adapting to GET/POST. An alternative could be to implement a web server to handle these requests for you, but not everyone can afford a reliable web server. Information about the methods: These methods wouldn’t be very hard to…

[Maximum_ADHD]

Previously you could only use GET/POST methods in the HttpService. It wasn’t fully qualified for communicating with RESTful web services. RequestAsync aims to solve this problem!

The function takes a dictionary which accepts the following fields:

Name	Type	Required	Description
Url	string	Yes	The URL being targetted in this request.
Method	string	No	The HTTP method being used by this request.
Headers	dictionary	No	A dictionary of headers to be used with this request. Accepts pretty much any HTTP header (except for Content-Length).
Body	string	No	The body of content being submitted in this request. Can be any string, including binary data. Must be excluded when using the GET/HEAD methods.

The function returns a dictionary containing the following fields:

Name	Type	Description
Success	bool	The success status of the request.
StatusCode	int	The code identifying the status of the response.
StatusMessage	string	The status message that was sent back.
Headers	dictionary	A dictionary of headers that were set in this response.
Body	Variant	The body of content being received back from the server.

[Kiansjet]

• So are the other methods on track to deprecation?
• Why is method a string? Aren’t get, post, put, patch, delete, and maybe a few more I forgot the only ones? Wouldn’t it be better as an Enum?

[Maximum_ADHD]

• Not sure at the moment, it’s certainly possible.
• Maybe for non-standard methods? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Kampfkarren (boyned)]

Not only are there non-standard headers, but headers can be added to the standard at any time, and I don’t want to have to wait for a Roblox update in order to use them.

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@Maximum_ADHD and cowbear16

Any ETA for that sweet HttpService:RequestAsync? I’m assuming a SoonTM, but hey … have to see considering how useful this simple API change will be.

[Maximum_ADHD]

It should be enabled already.

[Reinitialized]

wait wot?

On mobile so can’t test right away, but claims on the Wiki it’s not. Will check asap on desktop

[aresko]

In the past you could not submit requests to the Roblox website, but it appears you now can with RequestAsync, is this intentional or will it be removed?