I am using persevere for an application I am writing that controls remote hardwere. Persevere is written in Java and doesn't supply an alternative API. I am using a web-based GUI as the control panel. So far, so good. I can get and set data using REST channels like dojo does but the problem is that I don't really know how to use REST c...
We have an existing web app that can score an essay. A user can start a new revision of an essay, save it, resume it or submit it (for scoring). Once the revision is submitted it is marked as a COMPLETE and it is not later changed. If the user starts a new revision the previous response will be copied to the current revision. If the u...
I would like to start using the WCF Rest Starter Kit's HttpClient to build clients for my Restful WCF services and I was wondering... If anyone is currently experience any problems with it Can I be confident that future versions of the component (just the HttpClient, not worried about the rest of the kit) will not contain significant ...
I know that Flickr provides both XML-RPC and REST ways of working with it. There are standard XML-RPC libraries for every language (For example, Python has a built-in one xmlrpclib). Standard XML-RPC libraries takes care of the serializing/deserializing as well as sending/receiving the responses. It seems to me that websites that use ...
I'm building a web service and have a node that accepts a POST to create a new resource. The resource expects one of two content-types - an XML format I'll be defining, or form-encoded variables. The idea is that consuming applications can POST XML directly and benefit from better validation etc., but there's also an HTML interface tha...
I am building a REST based API (Read only) for accessing services of my application. I plan on writing a web application that will leverage these APIs to provide basic information on the status of the application. I plan to use AJAX (using jQuery) to show the information. Originally I planned on using Grails, Spring MVC, RoR or one of t...
Is there a list somewhere of recommendations of different Python-based REST frameworks for use on the serverside to write your own RESTful APIs? Preferably with pros and cons. Please feel free to add recommendations here. :) ...
I try to be as RESTful as possible in building applications but one thing that I'm never sure about is how to create a wizard-type work flow, be RESTful and concise. Take, for example, a multi-page sign-up process. Option 1: I can create a controller for each step and call new or edit when user gets to that step (or back to it). I ...
I am using the zend framework to get info from the audioscrobbler api. The response format is like this: <recenttracks user="RJ"> <track nowplaying="true"> <artist mbid="2f9ecbed-27be-40e6-abca-6de49d50299e">Aretha Franklin</artist> <name>Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves</name> <mbid/> <album mbid=""/> <url>ww...
This seems to be the REST principal that I've had the hardest time wrapping my head around. I understand that when desiging a rest api most of the effort should go into designing/describing hypertext for the application. Any pointers to real world applications of this principal ? How does atom protocol apply this principal ? Can some one...
I'd like to monitor HTTP traffic to/from my PC so I can watch web services interaction. (SOAP and RESTful services) There seems to be a lot of different software out there for this. What do you all recommend? ...
I'm trying to come up with a rule on our F5 to direct traffic to our Tomcat server appropriately. We are deploying separate WAR files for each RESTful service. So, we would like to have the following URIs as an example: /services/quiz/01234/ /services/user/54321/ Where 'quiz' and 'user' are quiz.war and user.war respectively. We want t...
Hi, I was wondering if anyone could post or know of instructions on creating a simple restful web service with eclipse and deployed on tomcat. ...
I'm running into some HTTP caching issues, caused by some downstream apps not putting Cache-Control headers on time-sensitive data. I need to make the case that this is a broken situation. Is there any succinct statement available online about permissible or common response-handling behaviors by caches and agents when the Cache-Control ...
Greetings, I'm confused as to the best approach to make when consuming REST based web services with .Net. At the moment I'm using the System.net.webclient class. Should I be using Webresponse, webrequest classes in System.Net ? If I were to use another approach (Other than webclient) what disadvantages / advantages would I gain ? Tha...
Hi I am developing the code to start an instance of an EC2 image on Amazon Web Services, there are 2 steps 1) start the instance 2) allocate our Elastic IP address to the started instance Is there a way to carry out both of these in a single command? I will be running a .bat file to start the instance, and then when the instance is ...
I work on a couple of projects that connect with external services like Facebook and Netflix. At this moment most libraries I'm using to access these APIs ( including the ones I've written myself ) have single methods so call specific API functions yet always seem to call some sort of base method to make the request. Something like thi...
I have a site where members login to their account (FormsAuth). I would like to set up a RESTful service that I can access using jQuery. I would like to protect these services using the same FormsAuth. How would a third-party site be able to access these services? They would need to pass in the Principal/Identity to the service, right...
How can I model roles views restfully? Lets say I have a resource that can be viewed by a buyer or a seller (some content is shared between them on the resource, and some is unique to each one of them) Should i make them a seperate resource: /resource/1/buyer, /resource/1/seller or should i pass a format: /resource/1?viewer=seller ...
Hi, I am creating a service which receives some data from mobile phones and saves it to the database. The phone is sending the data every 250 ms. As I noticed that the delay for data storing is increasing I tried to run WireShark and write a log as well. I noticed that the web requests from mobile phone are being made without the dela...