This example shows three different approaches to making calls against the Splunk REST API.

The examples all happen to retrieve a list of installed apps from a given Splunk instance, but they could apply as easily to any other area of the REST API.

• a.py uses Python's standard httplib module to make calls against the Splunk REST API. This example does not use any SDK libraries to access Splunk.

• b.py users the SDK's lower level binding module to access the REST API. The binding module handles authentication details (and some additional book- keeping details not demonstrated by this sample) and the result is a much simplified interaction with Splunk, but its still very much a 'wire' level coding experience.

• c.py uses the SDK client module, which abstracts away most most of the wire level details of invoking the REST API, but that still presents a stateless interface to Splunk the attempts to faithfully represent the semantics of the underlying REST API.