Hi Ian and Till, Thank you for your opinions. I will further look into them and get back to you with more details.
Thanks and Regards, *Erandi Ganepola* Undergraduate BSc. Management and Information Technology (IT Sp.) University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka <https://www.linkedin.com/in/erandiganepola/> <https://github.com/erandiganepola> <https://twitter.com/erandiganepola> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 7:05 AM, Ian Maxon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Erandi, > > Sorry for the late reply, this got buried in my mailing list tags. I > also think reusing hyracks-http is probably the way to go. I would > reckon there are probably more ways a library that would attempt to > constrain to RESTful-ness might be harder to use than vice-versa, but > this is just a feeling. Maybe if you could give an example of where > you think the advantage might be, I could understand the tradeoff > better. > > -Ian > > On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 10:12 AM, Till Westmann <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Erandi, > > > > as you might have seen Hyracks (the runtime system underlying VXQuery) > has > > it’s own servlet-like framework [1] that is based on the Netty NIO > framework > > [2]. > > One of the reasons why this framework was adopted is that the licenses > for > > the servlet API and corresponding frameworks like Jersey (CDDL and GPL > with > > classpath exception) are not ideal for downstream reuse of the project. > The > > Apache Software foundation categorizes the CDDL as "category B" [3] > > (acceptable with appropriate labeling) and the GPL with classpath > exception > > as "category X" [4] (not acceptable). > > As hyracks-http framework is available and as it makes downstream > > consumption easy, I think that your implementation of the HTTP API for > > VXQuery should be based on it. > > > > Cheers, > > Till > > > > [1] > > https://github.com/apache/asterixdb/tree/master/hyracks- > fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http > > [2] https://netty.io/ > > [3] https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-b > > [4] https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-x > > > > > > On 25 May 2017, at 1:06, Erandi Ganepola wrote: > > > >> Hi Ian and Preston, > >> > >> I would be really grateful if you can look into my previous email in > which > >> I suggested few possible alternatives for the REST API implementation > and > >> kindly give your opinions on that. > >> > >> Thanks and Regards, > >> > >> *Erandi Ganepola* > >> Undergraduate > >> BSc. Management and Information Technology (IT Sp.) > >> University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka > >> > >> <https://www.linkedin.com/in/erandiganepola/> > >> <https://github.com/erandiganepola> <https://twitter.com/ > erandiganepola> > >> > >> On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 10:22 PM, Erandi Ganepola > >> <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> Hi Ian and Preston, > >>> > >>> As we discussed, I went through the AsterixDB's REST API > implementation. > >>> They have written the REST API from scratch using servlet basics [1]. > >>> What > >>> I feel is that it won't be efficient to put such effort to write > servlets > >>> from scratch since we have more easy to use, yet stable implementations > >>> like jersey [2]. Therefore, my opinion is that using jersey[2] will > make > >>> the VXQuery REST API implementation much easier and easily > >>> understandable. > >>> > >>> However, I'm fine to continue on the REST server implementation with > any > >>> of those two methods (pure servlet based or Jersey & JAX-RS based). > >>> Please > >>> let me know your opinion on these two methods and which method you > think > >>> will be better. > >>> > >>> [1] https://github.com/apache/asterixdb/tree/master/asterixd > >>> b/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server > >>> > >>> <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com% > 2Fapache%2Fasterixdb%2Ftree%2Fmaster%2Fasterixdb% > 2Fasterix-app%2Fsrc%2Fmain%2Fjava%2Forg%2Fapache%2Fasterix%2Fapi%2Fhttp% > 2Fserver&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGUlYltQj2h-sheau2X44kyNc0O7g> > >>> [2] https://jersey.java.net > >>> > >>> <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fjersey.java.net&; > sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGnWT2V5YQbw8EuNfRlHPkxgNQ3uQ> > >>> > >>> Thanks and Regards, > >>> > >>> *Erandi Ganepola* > >>> Undergraduate > >>> BSc. Management and Information Technology (IT Sp.) > >>> University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka > >>> > >>> <https://www.linkedin.com/in/erandiganepola/> > >>> <https://github.com/erandiganepola> > >>> <https://twitter.com/erandiganepola> > >>> > > >
