-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Vikas Banjara wrote: > On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Christoph Baudson > <[email protected]>wrote: > > Vikas Banjara wrote: >>>> Thanks Christoph and Siddharth for prompt reply. >>>> >>>> But I have a different cocern. For either format, all the requests from >>>> client will be handled by one script. I went throgh Christoph's article: >>>> > http://baudson.cute-ice.de/serendipity/index.php?/archives/20-RESTful-Web-Service-with-PHP-2.html >>>> Here, Christoph is parsing the URL to identify the resource. So this > means >>>> that all the URLs are being handled by the same script. I can explain it > in >>>> verbose. >>>> >>>> Client sends: GET api/user/id/json >>>> Now in general apache server will try to open a page >>>> api/user/id/json/index.html or execute the file api/user/id/json.php >>>> But we know this is wrong. Actually, there will be a script say >>>> api/index.php which will parse the URL api/user/id/json and find the >>>> resource and format. >>>> >>>> So, one way to solve this problem is to map all the urls of the form > api/* >>>> to api/index.php. This can be done by using mod rewrite. >>>> Any other solution? Do I make sense? Normally I don't :-) > You can have a single script for each resource type in the approach I > mentioned. Think of it like this > > api/users.php/json > api/user.php/<id>/json > api/wms.php/<id>/json> > > etc. > > >> Even if it is api/users.php/json >> when the client will send a request GET api/users/json , the server will >> look for api/users/json/index.php or api/users/json/index.html
The client will not send api/user/id/json but api/user.php/<id>/json in this approach! > > > > So you won't need any rewriting. > > Christoph > > > >>>> Regards >>>> Vikas >>>> >>>> On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Siddharth Prakash Singh >>>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Christoph, >>>>> >>>>> Twitter uses the format like GET user/id.json or GET user/id.xml >>>>> >>>>> Siddharth >>>>> >>>>> On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Christoph Baudson >>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Hi Vikas, >>>> >>>> Vikas Banjara wrote: >>>>>>>> Hi all, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I want a discussion on ways of handling REST API Request. Rest > request >>>>>> URL >>>>>>>> will be like - >>>>>>>> GET api/user/id.json or Get api/user/id.xml >>>>>>>> Now all the requests are handled by one page say api/index.php. So > how >>>>>> are >>>>>>>> we going to redirect all such request to this index.php. >>>>>>>> One solution could be Apache rewrite. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Is it a good solution? Is it a standard solution? Any other better >>>>>> solution? >>>> I had studied a book [1] on RESTful Web Services with PHP last year. The >>>> authors used the following style of representing resources >>>> >>>> api/user.php/<id>/json >>>> >>>> Not sure if this is the standard way, but I think it's easier to start >>>> without rewrite rules (more people will join and test). >>>> >>>> Read more about it at my blog [2]. >>>> >>>> Comments? >>>> >>>> Christoph >>>> >>>> [1] http://www.packtpub.com/restful-php-web-services/book >>>> [2] >>>> > http://baudson.cute-ice.de/serendipity/index.php?/archives/19-RESTful-Web-Service-with-PHP-1.html >>>>>>>> Thanks >>>>>>>> Vikas >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>> Mapbender_dev mailing list >>>>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>>>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapbender_dev > _______________________________________________ > Mapbender_dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapbender_dev >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Siddharth Prakash Singh >>>>> http://www.spsneo.com >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Mapbender_dev mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapbender_dev >>>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Mapbender_dev mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapbender_dev _______________________________________________ Mapbender_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapbender_dev >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Mapbender_dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapbender_dev -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkw5zkwACgkQGtMIfbycMX481QCeOcJas7EBjRORmgI2a8B2ovkE FR4AoLyh5TY/Hu1BLKhmagH8iw4KwA76 =Rb45 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mapbender_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapbender_dev
