Hi Christian, I'm actually thinking about a similar plugin, concentrating mostly on a webservice client who specializes well on REST WS. It should give a very simple way of consuming REST WS, like httparty http://railstips.org/2008/7/29/it-s-an-httparty-and-everyone-is-invited, with an even better configuration system It should use sfWebBrowserPlugin. It should furnish model objects as responses.
I actually have quite some code to start from, classes that we used successfully for some pseudo-rest webservices (and some non-rest ones). I have ideas on YAML file for the client. Perhaps to spare this big task into two well coordinated plugins is a better solution ? Unfortunately I share all of your other questions, but I hope this discussion will bring some answers... :-) Gabriele Santini On Aug 21, 7:44 pm, chrisk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I'm currently thinking about starting a plugin project, that will give > symfony applications a REST API. > So I've written a small document, which shows the design goals, > describes where symfony has to be extended, which points have to be > discussed and some references related to the topic. > > I hope there will be a lot of feedback. > > Regards, > Christian > > Here is the document: > > #RFC-sfRESTServicePlugin-0.1 > > This new plugin should easily allow to give existing applications a > RESTful api and consume RESTful apis, especially RoR ActiveResource. > > ## design goals > > * apply all REST principles > * use HTTP methods > * use HTTP status codes > * use HTTP authentication > * use URLs as references between objects > * use content negotiation > * use caching > * provide client and server api > * integrate into model layer > * provide cli tasks > * support multiple data formats (xml, json, ...) > * be RoR ActiveResource compatible > * ... > > ## symfony extension points > > In the following places the plugin has to extend symfony: > > * controller > * request/response > * routing > * view > * model > * ... > > ## points to discuss > > * is there a need in the community for such a plugin > * is such a plugin even realistic or is custom api implementation > for each application desirable > * split into two plugins one for server and another one for client > * how to configure which methods are exported > * YAML file > * additional doc tags, parsed through cli task > > ## references > > * [Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software > Architectures](http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/ > top.htm) > * [english Wikipedia article](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REST) > * [introduction](http://www.infoq.com/articles/rest-introduction) > * [anti-patterns](http://www.infoq.com/articles/rest-anti-patterns) > * [add request method requirements through routing](http:// > redotheweb.com/2008/08/08/add-request-method-requirement-to-routing-in- > symfony-11/) > * has anyone a good RoR ActiveResource reference guide? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-devs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
