node.js

// Copyright 2014 Pedro P. Candel <kusorbox@gmail.com>. All rights reserved.

// This is an example of the same gist API requests made straight from NodeJS
// without using wf, so differences can be quickly stablished with
// the way to proceed to write workflow tasks

if (process.argv.length < 4) {
    console.error('Github username and password/token required as arguments');
    process.exit(1);
}

var $login = process.argv[2],
    $password = process.argv[3];

var restify = require('restify'),
    util = require('util');

var client = restify.createJsonClient({
    url: 'https://api.github.com'
});

client.basicAuth($login, $password);

client.post('/gists', {
    'description': 'a gist created using node-workflow',
    'public': false,
    'files': {
        'example.json': {
            'content': JSON.stringify({
                foo: 'bar',
                bar: 'baz'
            })
        }
    }
}, function (err, req, res, obj) {
    if (err) {
        console.error(err.name + ': ' + err.body.message);
        if (err.statusCode === 401) {
            process.exit(1);
        }
    } else {
        // res.statusCode === 201
        // res.location === obj.url
        // obj.url === client.url + req.path + '/' + obj.id
        var gist = obj;
        console.info('Gist object with id ' + gist.id + ' created');
        var path = '/gists/' + gist.id + '/star';
        client.get(path, function (err, req, res, obj) {
            console.log(util.inspect(err, false, 8));
            console.log(util.inspect(obj, false, 8));
            if (err) {
                if (err.statusCode === 404) {
                    client.put('/gists/' + gist.id + '/star', {},
                    function (err, req, res, obj) {
                        if (err) {
                            console.error(err.name + ': ' + err.body.message);
                            process.exit(1);
                        } else {
                            console.info('Gist is starred: ' + gist.html_url);
                            process.exit(0);
                        }
                    });
                } else {
                    console.error(err.name + ': ' + err.body.message);
                    process.exit(1);
                }
            } else {
                console.info('Gist is starred: ' + gist.html_url);
                process.exit(0);
            }
        });
    }
});