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REST Describe in the news and Road Map
Created on Friday, April 27, 2007 at 11:10:57 and categorized as Work by Thomas Steiner
REST Describe in the news and Road Map
Dion Almaer over at Ajaxian has blogged about yesterday's Beta release of REST Describe. Now I am looking forward to receiving some sort of feedback, and hopefully some more WADL files for existing REST Web Services. In addition to that, a short Road Map of what I am planning for the next release:
Plans for the v0.2 release:
- Add a Grammar and Includes Discoverer server-side component that parses the output of a request in order to find the contained grammars and includes. Because of the same origin policy limitation of today's Ajax implementations in browser this has to be proxied on the server.
- Add the possibility to upload WADL files, parse them, and have them displayed nicely in the WADL tree in order to make modifications to the file. This will be either a simple textarea where you can paste the WADL file, or (probably later because of security concerns) a server-side upload.
- Let users save their WADLs on the server.
- Add the possibility to create code from WADLs (I call this feature REST Compile)
- Have some spider extract links from API documentation for easier batch URI analysis. I am pretty sure that something like this has been implemented before.
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eduardo pelegri-llopart wrote:
Comment created on Saturday, May 12, 2007 at 18:00:01Hi Thomas. I just pushed a spotlight on this at http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/rest_compile_and_rest_describe. Sorry for the delay, the usual JavaOne craziness. - eduard/o