REST in lift 2.0 + Scala 2.8

Question

I can see from release notes and such that there has been many improvements in lift 2.0 for building REST stuff, but I'm unable to find what has been done or how to use the new stuff compared to the old.

Does anyone know of such documentation, blog entries, examples or similar for how to use REST in lift 2.0.

Ideally I would like something along the lines of the links below updated for lift 2.0, or something similar.

Perhaps someone here have such examples handy or know where to find it?

http://blog.m1key.me/2010/07/rest-with-scalas-lift-framework-part-1.html http://blog.m1key.me/2010/07/rest-with-scalas-lift-framework-part-2.html

Answer 1

Lots of things have changed which make REST APIs a lot easier to create. Here are two links to articles which describe the new methods for building them. You should also look at the google group as there are lots of examples in the archives:

• http://blog.getintheloop.eu/2010/3/29/multi-format-rest-services-with-lift
• http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/liftweb/REST_Web_Services

Answer 2

I'm a REST-enthusiast in general and currently evaluating various aspects of Lift's support. I've recently blogged by thoughts on URI matching and Content Negotiation here and here. This is an ongoing series at this moment.

I really like what I see so far. The framework is very flexible. Even if you find an aspect of REST-support is missing you can extend the functionality with reasonable effort.