Re: REST examples?

2012-04-18 Thread Christian Hammond
REST is nothing more than a design pattern for structuring an API, generally one backed by HTTP. There's no toolkit, no library that is required for REST. We are a REST API because of how we implement several REST patterns, such as: * One URL per resource * Clean URL schemes * Using hypertext to l

Re: REST examples?

2012-04-18 Thread Dado Feigenblatt
Actually, I'm writing this application in Python. Unfortunately we can't wait for the new Python API. I wish. I'm not very proficient on REST design patterns. I guess I might have made two wrong assumptions. One that rbtools didn't use REST, and the other that I couldn't import it. Now I now it

Re: REST examples?

2012-04-18 Thread Christian Hammond
Hi Dado, Given your goal of creating review requests, I'd suggest looking at post-review (part of our RBTools package), as that's basically its primary purpose. We are working on a set of actual Python bindings to interface with Review Board, which should make life easier (if you can use Python f