Sounds awesome! I've done an application like this in the past where an entire web UI was data driven using a custom IDL. It had to have presentation hints associated with it (acceptable values, display widget, etc). Not something WADL supports inherently I'm sure. But, I know from experience this can work.
I don't really care what the IDL is, so long as we don't have to write a parser for it in 10 different languages ... which is why XML/JSON hold such appeal (although JSON in C keeps me awake at night). -S ________________________________________ From: Mark Nottingham [m...@mnot.net] Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 10:38 AM To: Sandy Walsh Cc: Mellquist, Peter; Joseph Heck; openstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Openstack] +1, All services should have WADLs I'm totally on board with having the interface being machine-consumable at runtime -- see the previous discussion on versioning and extensibility -- but WADL isn't really designed for this. I'm sketching up something more appropriate, and will be able to talk about it soon (hopefully). _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp