Hi Matt,
About question 2 you can see in Restangular
docs: https://github.com/mgonto/restangular#using-self-reference-resources
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Em segunda-feira, 17 de março de 2014 14h28min08s UTC-3, Matt Kruse
escreveu:
>
> I'm familiar with the theory of services, REST, etc, but I've never
> written a full app to consume them until now. So I don't really know what I
> don't know.
>
> I quickly moved from *$resource* to *Restangular* to get added
> functionality. It's nice and does what I need, but I kind of expected
> things to be even simpler than what they are.
> I have a few questions for those who have been through this in depth:
>
> *1)* Is there a tool to *abstract the routing* a bit? I'd like to
> generate an Angular service, define some endpoints and their methods, and
> be done. It looks like all the pieces are there to build it myself, but is
> there an easier way? I consider this kind of like ORM, and I would expect
> some of it to be generated. Maybe.
>
> *2)* Right now my list services are returning an 'href' attribute that
> points to the individual record url, like this:
> *url: /games/1/players*
> [ {id:1,name:"Test",href:"/players/1"}, ... ]
> Is there a better way? *Can Restangular "discover" this routing* in a
> better way than an "href" attribute embedded in the object which isn't
> really a field of the object? What if my object has its own "href"
> attribute?
> Should/can I define this routing in my service, rather than depending on
> the server to supply it?
>
> *3)* I use *customPOST* to call an endpoint like /players/1/publish. Is
> there a way the server can tell me that the publish endpoint is available,
> and the url to it, so it's more discoverable? Or do I have to hard-code
> this coupling on each side and hope they don't get out of sync?
>
> *4)* What is typically returned by *"state-altering" service calls*?
> Should I get the refreshed object back? Or some metadata about what has
> changed? Or just a success message? My worry is that the server has changed
> the model in some calculated field, and now it's out of sync in my
> javascript. Should I manually request the object again after each state
> change?
>
> *5)* Is there any better alternative for consuming REST services than
> Restangular? The API seems good, and right away it "made sense" to me, as a
> developer. But there is a lot of configuration options and a lot of
> "custom" methods, which makes me wonder if it's trying to be everything to
> everyone. Maybe there is an option that is a little more opinionated with
> fewer options? I kind of like opinionated frameworks and reusable code. As
> long as they do what I want, I'll follow their rules. :)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Matt Kruse
>
>
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