weboptions and webwrite alternative for MATLAB 2009

Below is how I access a REST API in MATLAB.

options = weboptions('Username', '[e-mail]', 'Password', '********', 'RequestMethod', 'post', 'MediaType', 'application/xml');
payload = '<some_query>';
response = webwrite(url, payload, options);

But this doesn't work on MATLAB 2009 because weboption and webwrite were introduced in MATLAB 2014.

What would be the alternate way to make above work in MATLAB 2009?

[Rik]

Have you tried putting your payload in the get field? Weboptions might not exist, but urlread has several options in the name value pairs.

[Chankey Pathak]

I'm sorry I'm new to MATLAB. Does urlread support all versions? Could you provide an alternate snippet to the one which I have posted which works on all versions of MATLAB?

Answer 1

[Rik]

Have you tried reading the documentation for that function? link

Also, being a POST or GET request doesn't matter for the choice between these functions. The only difference is that urlread will store the response in a char array and urlwrite stores the result in a file.

I don't know if this would work for every (or any) payload, but you could try something like the code below.

payload = '<some_query>';
[str,status] = urlread(url,...
    'Username', '[e-mail]',...
    'Password', '********',...
    'POST',{payload});

[Rik]

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