Service Invocation

Instructions

Calling APIs is an important part of writing code on the internet. In this exercise, you will need to fetch data from an endpoint and ensure it was retrieved successfully.

Objectives

• Modify the provided code.
• Invoke the HTTP client and try to retrieve a quote. This result should be a union type consisting string and error.
• If the quote is received, print it to the console (using io:println()).
• If an error has occurred, print the error message to the console.

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Source

This is an exercise to introduce users to the Ballerina HTTP client