I am trying to design a "collection of items" resource. I need to support the following operations: Create the collection Remove the collection Add a single item to the collection Add multiple items to the collection Remove a single item from the collection Remove multiple items from the collection This is as far as I have gone: Cre...
I'm writing a controller helper that sets the proper response headers for my REST controller action. It's pasted below and should be simplified enough for those who aren't familiar with Zend Framework to understand what I'm doing. My question is: Are these codes correct for their respective responses, and in the case of "access denied" ...
I have a portion of my site that has a lightweight xml/json REST API. Most of my site is behind forms auth but only some of my API actions require authentication. I have a custom AuthorizeAttribute for my API that I use to check for certain permissions and when it fails it results in a 401. All is good, except since I'm using forms au...
I am designing a REST API where some resources can be filtered through query parameters. In some cases, these filter values would be resources from the same REST API. This makes for longish and pretty unreadable URIs. While this is not too much of a problem in itself because the URIs are meant to be created and manipulated programmatical...
I often use respond_to do |format| ... end in Rails for my Restful actions, but I don't know what the ideal solution is for handling various forms of, say, html responses. For instance, view1 that calls action A might expect back html with a list of widgets wrapped in a UL tag, while view2 expects the same list of widgets wrapped in a...
Hi guys! I'm trying to create a RESTful webservice using a Java Servlet. The problem is I have to pass via POST method to a webserver a request. The content of this request is not a parameter but the body itself. So I basically send from ruby something like this: url = URI.parse(@host) req = Net::HTTP::Post.new('/WebService/WebService...
I am writing a service to a international HTTP standard, and there is one method that can return three different XML results, call them Single, Multiple and Error. Now I've written an IXmlSerializable class that can consume each of these results and generate them. However, WCF seems to insist that I can only have a single return XML root...
I have this piece of code: @RequestMapping(value = "/test.json", method = RequestMethod.GET) @ResponseStatus(HttpStatus.OK) public @ResponseBody Object[] generateFile(@RequestParam String tipo) { Object[] variaveis = Variavel.getListVariavelByTipo(tipo); return variaveis; } As far as I know it should take a request to test.jso...
Experience says that using WSDL-SOAP based webservice for internal consumption is an overkill. There are too many service-based POJO classes that when let into the system complicates it way too much. One option would be use adapter pattern, map the request/response objects to internal domain classes. But is it even required? Is there a b...
Hi, I am building REST API in php with memcache layer on top for caching all resources. After some reading/experience it turns out it's best when documents are as simple as posible...mainly due to dropping cache sequences. So if there is 'building','room' entities for the 'room' document I would only place the id of the 'building' and...
Today's browsers (or HTML < 5) only support HTTP GET and POST, but to communicate RESTful one need PUT and DELETE too. If the workaround should not be to use Ajax, something like a hidden form field is required to overwrite the actual HTTP method. Rails uses the following trick: <input name="_method" type="hidden" value="put" /> Is t...
I have a RESTful API set up and working with CakePHP using mapResources() and parseExtensions(). Authentication is handled by CakePHP's security component using HTTP Digest Authentication. Everything works fine, unless I add parameters to the url, in the form: http://example.com/locations.xml?distance=4 Which causes the authenticatio...
Hi, I am looking for a Windows graphical utility for performing HTTP operations. For example, I want to be able to say things like: POST to http://example.org/test/service With a POST body: "Data goes here" Does anyone know a good piece of software for doing this? ...
Hi, I'm looking for a book or any other resource that will help me learn how to create RESTful APIs in Java. Looking on Amazon, I saw that there are several solutions for RESTful Java, but I'm looking for the one that is tailored to a novice. Looking forward to getting your advices/opinions, thanks! ...
I want to integrate the RESTful-API in my Qt-Project. I already read the example on this page, but this is only for receiving data from a RESTful-interface, not for sending new data to the server. In Java, I can use RESTlet for example, is there any possibility to use something like that for Qt, too? Or is there even a simple way to send...
Hello I'm developing an android application .. which will send location data to a web service to store in the server database. In Java: I've used this protocol so the URI is: HTTP request instead of REST HttpPost request = new HttpPost("http://trafficmapsa.com/GService.asmx/GPSdata? lon="+Lon+"&Lat="+Lat+"&speed="+speed); In A...
I have a small rails app that has default scaffold generated routes eg. /stadia/1.xml. However I have to support legacy client app that can't construct such URLs correctly. What I need to do is to map URL in the form: /stadia?id=1?format=xml to /stadia/1.xml Or even something like: /myApp?model=<model_name>?id=<id>?format=xml to /<mod...
Created using Sphinx 0.6.5. I know Python's documentation uses reStructuredText, but it has different sections like http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/2.6.html and http://docs.python.org/tutorial/index.html. How do you do this in reStructuredText? Do you run rst2html in a bunch of directories, keeping its structure? I know that it us...
Hi there! im trying to get a controller to return a view through a Expression Language-Filter, but have no idea on how to get jersey to use EL for filtering a view. View with EL-tags: <html> <title>%{msg}</title> </html> Controller: @GET @Produces("text/html") public Response viewEventsAsHtml(){ String view=null; try { ...