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...
Hi, I've been researching WADL and am wondering why it isn't more widely adopted? With the rate at which REST usage seems to be growing, I'm surprised that more development efforts don't use it. Is there are fundamental flaw in its design, is it not a good match for the culture that typically surrounds RESTful web services, or is it ...
I've read a great example of a WADL file. I've also checked out the WADL2Java tool. But I can't seem to find a full spec of the WADL format. I have many unanswered questions, mostly dealing with how various parts of the file relate to one another and whether I can reduce duplication by using references. Later leppie got the official...
Is there any way of publishing the parameters expected by the RESTful methods in Ruby on Rails? Using SOAP, we can use WSDL, but does RoR implement WADL or WSDL 2.0 for RESTful services? Edit: I am aware of a SOAP based solution using ActionWebService. I was refering to a RoR equivalent of https://wadl.dev.java.net/ ...
I am looking for a code generator than can generate C# code to access RESTful web services described by WADL files in a way similar to how wadl2java works. Doing som searching I came across the rest-api-code-gen project on Google Code, but although the latest source does in fact support C#, the REST Describe & Compile demo site does not...
Currently, I am working on building RESTful web service in Rails. I am looking for some ways to build a good documentation in my Rails RESTful web service. I found some ways to do it: Wiki like Twitter API RDoc WADL (I'm not sure if anyone is currently using it?) Could anyone gives any recommendations? ...
To describe restful we can say Every resource has its own URI. Using HTTP GET,POST,PUT,DELETE we can parse these resources. All the resources are representational. Who wants to use our resources, can just use it from browser. that's all the main idea of restful. This architecture or architectural style allow services on the internet. So ...
Most REST interfaces I see are described with a simple web page describing the URL, the method, accepted input and returned result. For example the Amazon S3 or the Twitter API documentation. But why should I settle with what is apparently good enough for Amazon or Twitter... So, is it worth describing a REST API in a machine readable f...
WSDL 2.0: www.w3.org/TR/wsdl20/ WADL www.w3.org/Submission/wadl/ XRD www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/35274/xrd-1.0-wd10.html All three can be used a REST API descriptors. What's the differences? I know this is a heated question, but I simply want a comparison, not a flame war :P ...
I have the PHP source of a RESTful service. Are there any solutions for auto-generating a WADL from this? ...
I have a REST api that's ambiguous, something like (this isn't the specific problem, just gives an idea of the ambiguity): /toplevel/${customer_number}/some_command/more stuff /toplevel/${customer_number}/${some_product_name_anything_goes}/more stuff We've been getting away with it because our .htaccess file lists the more specific 'co...
Looking at the current version of the WADL proposal, I couldn't quite figure out how to document POST request parameters (with application/x-www-form-urlencoded encoding). I've seen something like this in the wild: <resource path="/path1"> <!-- default is mediaType="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" --> <method name="POST"> ...
This question is a bit long, please bear with me. In REST, i think we should not need WADL or any IDL. But rather something that would implicitly cover its concept. The way I think about it is when we (humans) surf the Web, when we go to a web site for the first time, we don't know what services it provides. You discover those on the ht...
From what I understand, I need to use WADL to describe a RESTful web service. Still, I have read many answers in relevant posts, where users are strongly opposed the use of WADL. What are the disadvantages of WADL? Is there any alternative solution? ...
I am modeling a REST API and part of the API will represent resources that are organized into an arbitrary hierarchy of nodes with values and sub-nodes (kind of like a file system or the windows registry). I would love to create a WADL file so that i can generate the JAX-RS boilerplate for the API but i'm not sure how to represent such ...
I am trying to use the wadl2java command line tool to generate the client side stubs for a wadl I have been provided with, but I am getting a JClass name empty error. Can anyone help me to resolve this? I can't seem to find much trouble shooting info around this. the fullstack trace is Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Illegal...
I have the following dependency in my pom file:- <dependency> <groupId>org.jvnet.ws.wadl</groupId> <artifactId>wadl-core</artifactId> <version>1.1-SNAPSHOT</version> </dependency> the jar file exists on the system and the dependency can be resolved. but when the code is run it fails on java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org...
Hello All, Please can anybody help me i have problem to call web-service in iPhone which is WADL like this http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-4867/ghmfe?l=en&a=view How to call that kinds of web service from iPhone, in the web-service there are POST, GET, DELETE and PUT method that how can i request from iPhone Thanks in advan...
I've built a RESTful web service (I'm using asp.net 4, MVC 2) and I want to expose a WADL. Are there any tools built in or otherwise that I can use to build it? I'm not looking (yet) to generate classes to consume it I'm looking strictly for something that can generate the WADL file itself. Thanks. ...
Hi all, I used WCF to create a restful web service in .NET, by means of a .svc file. The web application automatically produces a WSDL file. AFAIK, the WADL is more natural for a restul web service. How could I create a restful service in .NET (preferably with wcf) that produces a WADL description? Note An answer like "RTFM" is acce...