There is a nice search command for interacting with REST API: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/SearchReference/Rest
But it seems that it can only do GET queries. Is it possible to do POST and DELETE queries in search?
To be more specific, I need to dynamically create and remove inputs in my application.
Yes, you may use a REST call to delete. See DELETE for the "saved/searches/{name}" endpoint.
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.5.1612/RESTREF/RESTsearch#saved.2Fsearches.2F.7Bname....
Please keep in mind that the Splunk Search interface command line provides a 'rest' command, but this is read only, and is not a true REST client. Please use your favorite common purpose REST client. (curl, Postman, any HTTP library)
No, the rest
command supports GET requests only.
Use something like curl from the command line, or some other framework to issue POST / DELETE requests to the REST API over the network (to the management port of the Splunk instance, default 8089).
here is a doc on using curl in the command line http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/RESTUM/RESTusing
Thanks for the clarification!
Is there a way to achieve the same goal without "rest" command then?
Try https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/2775/ it contains a more generic Splunk REST command 🙂