I am doing a website with a REST architecture and I am finding the latter difficult to do. I want to be able to handle HTTP Requests like these : GET /myapp/5445/ HTTP/1.1 ... In an ideal world, I would code my own server and handle all the HTTP requests myself but I actually want to do this project with CGI or PHP and I want to be abl...
Can I get RESTful WCF services working in my sharepoint site? ...
I am trying to find the best way of getting round a design flaw in a web app I'm helping to support. One part of the service passes a parameter ("myparam") to a .jsp page, which in turn calls a REST service including our myparam as a path parameter. The design flaw bit is that myparam should be passed as a form parameter, since it can be...
Because I don't exactly know how any auth method works I want to write my own. So, what I want to do is the following. A client sends over HTTPs username+password(or SHA1(username+password)) the server gets the username+password and generates a big random number and stores it in a table called TOKENS(in some database) along with his IP...
I have three hierarchical layers injected in Spring - rest, business logic and database operations. Junit tests for BL and DAO are working OK, when rest can inject only business logic ioc layer. My supper class for junit tests: import org.springframework.test.AbstractTransactionalSpringContextTests; public class AbstractTest extends A...
Hi all, I've a created a simple WCF REST service which I intend to consume from an iPhone application. The service works fine but now I'd like to secure it. In my test enviornment (IIS on Windows 7) I already setup a self signed certificate using makecert.exe. I also overridden the validate() method so I can use a custom username & pa...
Hello everyone, I am trying to use a RESTful controller for user inside a namespace using AS and one outside for registration and so on. When i try to visit the namespaced url I get Unknown action. Once i replace active_scaffold :users with a def index; end i can the URL. My routes look like: map.register "register", :controller...
Hi there, i have been reading a little about REST services and i would love to know more. I wonder if anyone can confirm, currently we have a wcf web service (ending in .svc) and we have many clients accessing (i.e. form linux, max and PC) ... if i was to change my server to use REST then would the clients break? ...
Anyone have a sample of code using XmlRepresentation? I am currently using a StringRepresentation, but need it to return XML instead. It's for a RESTful web service. import org.restlet.resource.XmlRepresentation; ...
We are thinking of using a REST interface for communication between internal apps. App A will have to pass a fair bit of data representing a financial portfolio to app B. Is there any limit to the amount of data that can be passed using a REST API given that REST is implemented using HTTP? I wasn't sure if another protocol (ie: RMI) s...
What are the best frameworks for implementing both client and server REST frameworks in Java? I've been struggling a little to find an easy to use solution. Update: Both Jersey and Restlet seem like good options. We'll probably use Restlet but we'll experiment with both. ...
Hi guys. I am having problem with using REST and returning response as an XML. I've created basic service from the template and everything looks nice but when I want to serialize my class and return it as a responce the service returns something else. Take a look: [WebHelp(Comment = "Sample description for DoWork")] [WebInvoke(UriTemp...
We have recently added version control capabilities to our system, we are having hard time modeling these capabilities in a RESTful way. The system works as follows, when it's configured in "version-control" mode, before making modification to an entity one must check it out first (a private copy is created for that user). After modif...
Suppose I have a three level hierarchy consisting of school, students, and classes. If I expose student as a resource, my question is whether I should always return the parent "school" and the children "classes" along with that student, or whether there should be parm that the user includes to indicate such. Perhaps something like &de...
The code below is working but I want to know if there is a better way to do it. Is this the correct RESTful way to do this? Any suggestions would be helpful. The basic requirement is that I need a way to create and destroy a membership from places/show.html.erb class Place < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :memberships has_many :members...
I gather that there basically isn't a limit to the amount of data that can be sent when using REST via a POST or GET. While I haven't used REST or web services it seems that most services involve transferring limited amounts of data. If you want to transfer 1-5MB worth of data (in either direction) are web services considered a bad ide...
I'm trying to add a custom header to a wcf client hitting a standard, RESTful endpoint. I am trying to add some kind of header that will just allow me to trace requests from one layer to the next. Here's how I've tried to implement it: public class DynatracePurePathHeaderAppender : IClientMessageInspector, IEndpointBehavior { objec...
When you use REST to create a new entry using a POST, I see some APIs such as Google's specify that you send XML as part of the request while others specify that you send key/value pairs. Is there a standard or best practice for REST POST-s? ...
Any idea of a RESTful APIs in Django for GETTING information from a server? What I want to do is fetch the errors from the server into a database. For example: The Live server has examplewebsite.com, any thing goes wrong with that website should POST the error, where the Django app GET the errors and insert them into the database. ...
We are extending our HTTP REST API to allow clients to upload picture (for the purpose of this question, assuming binary data). So far we have only allowed simply strings in our API parameters. What is a good way to allow them to upload binary data? Would it be to request for the base64 encoded form? Would the URL become too long for the...