Re: [Wikitech-l] REST and SOA within MediaWiki - is my understanding right?

2014-04-16 Thread Terry Chay
On Apr 11, 2014, at 1:29 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: I think a more salient difference between the current situation and a more SOA setup would be that the different services could in theory be used outside of the rest of MediaWiki This may be a very noticeable, but

Re: [Wikitech-l] REST and SOA within MediaWiki - is my understanding right?

2014-04-16 Thread Chris McMahon
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Terry Chay tc...@wikimedia.org wrote: Again, I feel a more important aspect of REST is that the interface is extremely narrow: basically a representation of a resource (URL) and a set of 4 CRUD commands (create read update delete = post get put delete). The

Re: [Wikitech-l] REST and SOA within MediaWiki - is my understanding right?

2014-04-14 Thread Gabriel Wicke
On 04/11/2014 12:06 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: So, just to clarify, this is NOT a discussion of overhauling the outward-facing MediaWiki web API -- that's taking place in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/API_roadmap . The discussion is not about replacing the existing

Re: [Wikitech-l] REST and SOA within MediaWiki - is my understanding right?

2014-04-11 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: The way we do stuff now: within your code, you write your core or extension code so that it interacts with various objects, subclasses this and event-handles that and hooks into the other thing. And there are