*Bryan:*
thank you very much for sharing this, I pretty much agree with all
you say.
do you mind filing a bug here with copy/paste of your email please?
https://www.osgi.org/bugzilla/
probably Jan S. Rellermeyer, author of the spec, could also comment?
Andrei
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: RFC 182 - REST Interface for OSGi
From: Bryan Hunt <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Tue 30 Oct 2012 02:58:19 PM CDT
> Hi Andrei,
>
> I had a look at the spec, and I have some thoughts for consideration.
>
> For starting and stopping services, why not make it a service instead
> of an update to state? This would hide the internal details of the
> state value. For example:
>
> PUT framework/bundle/{bundleid}/start # starts the bundle
> PUT framework/bundle/{bundleid}/stop # stops the bundle
>
> For collections of things, I would recommend using an empty segment at
> the end of the URI. For example:
>
> GET framework/bundles/ # gets the list of bundles
> POST framework/bundles/ # installs a new bundle
>
> For things that accept a "filter", I would move that to the query
> portion of the URI. For example:
>
> GET framework/bundles/?{filter} # gets a filtered list of bundles
>
> When installing a new bundle, I'd like the option of sending the
> bundle content instead of a URL.
>
> When getting service meta-data, if the service is not resolved, I
> would like to see why. Missing configuration, missing required
> service, etc.
>
> The specs for the JSON that have array content all need a key:
>
> {
> bundles: [bundleURI, bundleURI, ..., bundleURI]
> }
>
>
> Security needs to be addressed. I'd like to see some sort of security
> service that we can provide implementations for that separate
> authentication from authorization much like the way Restlet does it
> through filters and it's security base classes.
>
>
> Bryan
>
> On Oct 29, 2012, at 5:45 PM, Andrei Pozolotin
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>> *Jerome,* hello;
>>
>> FYI: osgi alliance came up with new rest related spec:
>>
>> RFC 182 - REST Interface for OSGi
>>
>> http://www.osgi.org/Download/File?url=/download/osgi-early-draft-2012-10.pdf
>>
>> do you mind taking a look sharing your opinion?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Andrei
>>
>
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