Re: [Dspace-devel] REST API concerns

2012-03-08 Thread Gareth Waller
Hi Tim, I think a good point was made on the Virtual Summit meeting notes, namely "No reason why we cannot have multiple APIs, or even different implementations (and let the best one win out in the end)". As part of a previous project, we took that approach and created our own DSpace API based

Re: [Dspace-devel] REST API concerns

2012-02-28 Thread Bojan Suzic
Hi all, I will comment a few points as I am not able to attend the summit. --- https://dev.twitter.com/docs - Twitter specifically has a basic REST API, Search API, Streaming API, etc. They even do OAuth / AuthZ via REST API. --- I think this is a good idea. In some cases Twitter has multiple

Re: [Dspace-devel] REST API concerns

2012-02-28 Thread Tim Donohue
Hi All, Just wanted to follow up on this thread from a while back about the question of using the "Sakai bus for the REST API". I think Bojan gave a great description of why this decision was made initially. However, it's worth mentioning that this topic came up in today's discussion at our "

Re: [Dspace-devel] REST API concerns

2012-02-07 Thread Bojan Suzic
Hi Mark, Am 07.02.2012 17:36, schrieb Mark van Harmelen: > * Many exceptions are being caught and thrown away. We predict that in > times of trouble this will make the API impossible to debug. Many of the exceptions are related to handling of access rights of request sender and some other

[Dspace-devel] REST API concerns

2012-02-07 Thread Mark van Harmelen
Dear list members We have recently gained some concerns of a serious nature regarding the REST API: - Many exceptions are being caught and thrown away. We predict that in times of trouble this will make the API impossible to debug. - We suspect that the API may fail under conditions of