With JSR 311 and it's implementations we have a powerful standard for exposing Java objects via Rest. However on the client side there seems to be something missing that is comparable to Apache Axis for SOAP - something that hides the web service and marshals the data transparently back to Java objects. How do you create Java RESTful cl...
The Background I started a Rails project recently and decided to use RESTful controllers. I created controllers for my key entities (such as Country) and added index, new, edit, create, show, update, delete. I added my map.resources :country to my routes file and life was good. After development progressed a little, I started to encoun...
Ok so I've implemented both REST and SOAP services and I like both depending on the context. For me, WS* is great when I want an explicit contract between the server and the client e.g. for sensitive information or for mission critical stuff. REST on the other hand whilst flexible in terms of the schema definition, is in my mind more ide...
Sam Ruby, author of "RESTful Web Services" seems to come out against the use of HTTP PUT for partial updates: http://intertwingly.net/blog/2008/02/15/Embrace-Extend-then-Innovate What isn't clear is how partial updates should take place. As I commented near the bottom of his blog, it isn't clear how using HTTP PATCH is any better than u...
Hello All, I'm looking to setup a lightweight, developer only web stack on Windows (and possible OSX). Ideally, I'd be working with Zend framework, MySQL. But I'm open to other APIs to facilitate creating RESTFul (or pseudo-Restful) web services. I've seen some tools, like QuickPHP, but it might have been too lightweight as I could...
Hi All, I'm looking to create a RESTful or pseudo-Restful based web service on a PHP/MySql stack. I'm wondering what some of the frameworks you suggest I look at? I've been looking at Zend with Zend_Rest, but I'm curious to other things out there. Ideally, there's be some form of ActiveRecord based object mapping to the exposed web s...
I'm working on a REST service that has a few requirements: It has to be secure. Users should not be able to forge requests. My current proposed solution is to have a custom Authorization header that look like this (this is the same way that the amazon web services work): Authorization: MYAPI username:signature My question is how t...
I understand (I think) the basic idea behind RESTful-ness. Use HTTP methods semantically - GET gets, PUT puts, DELETE deletes, etc... Right? thought I understood the idea behind REST, but I think I'm confusing that with the details of an HTTP implementation. What is the driving idea behind rest, why is this becoming an important thing?...
I am building a simple Django app that will use scribd to display documents. I would like to have a page where the administrator can upload documents to scribd through the website, since I need to know a few things about it before it gets to scribd. What is the best/easiest way to do this, display an upload page and then take the file th...
Hi, I'm looking for a Report Designer that will allow me to connect to a RESTful webservice. Ideally I would like one that has a royalty-free End-User Report Designer. WE will be hosting it in an ASP.NET web site. So something compatable with that would be ideal ;) We used to use Data Dynamics Active Reports. However this doesn't allow...
I'm getting started on building a REST API for a project I'm working on, and it led me to do a little research as to the best way to build an API using RoR. I find out pretty quickly that by default, models are open to the world and can be called via URL by simply putting a ".xml" at the end of the URL and passing appropriate parameters....
I'm currently looking into options for creating a client API for a RESTfull application. Up until now we have had WCF services to allow all application to connect to the Business Layer and we're growing dissatisfied with it. We already have most of the infrastructure in place for the web (html and json requests) but we need to access th...
Clarification: this is not about user agent calls to pages, but Classic ASP calling ASP.NET! I have applications that are midway through a transition from Classic ASP to ASP.NET. There are a half million lines of code, so a complete rewrite of everything at once was simply not plausible, or frankly prudent considering that the vast ...
I just, quite anxiously, downloaded the spankin new WCF REST starter kit. The installed failed. Anyone else had this problem? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/cc950529.aspx Edit: The install fails during the template installation. The VS JIT debugger window pops up. Nothing else is running the PC, I am running as an admin o...
I am well aware that the Rest based approach is targeting HTTP. I would love to use the REST APIs and other goodness between processes on the same computer. Since ADO.NET data services is built on top of WCF it would seem reasonable to assume that the transport in configurable to work with any of the WCF supported transports. Anyone k...
I am a ASP.NET Developer trying to learn Rails and RESTful approach. To understand, I am planning to write a Email client, which would make RESTful GET call to the server to fetch the emails and POST to send an email. What are the best practices (both generic and/or specific to Rails) to be followed so that, the above application is not...
I am trying to get Silverlight to work with a quick sample application and am calling a rest service on a another computer. The server that has the rest service has a clientaccesspolicy.xml which looks like: <access-policy> <cross-domain-access> <policy> <allow-from http-request-headers="*"> <dom...
In the context of a Google App Engine Webapp framework application: I want to changed the request verb of a request in the case a parameter _method is provided, for example if a POST request comes in with a parameter _method=PUT, I need to change the request to call the put method of the handler. This is to cope with the way prototype.j...
Microsoft's new Windows Live Application Based Storage API is a RESTful API. More info is here. Why did they choose not to support WebDAV? ...
I found a good description on wikipedia with a few reference links, but there may be better ones, please help me to find these! To be clear, I am not looking for implementation for any language specific implementation guides, just the pure concept. ...