Il giorno 30/ott/2012, alle ore 12.31, Jan Bernhardt ha scritto:

> Hi @all,
> 
> I'm currently working on replacing Spring Webservice Stack with CXF. By doing 
> this I discovered a couple of issues, that I would like to discuss here.
> 
> 
> 1.       Syncope's REST API is only defined throw classes. My suggestion 
> would be to extract Interfaces from these Classes and place these in a new 
> package 'org.apache.syncope.core.rest.api'. All REST and security annotations 
> would be located with the interface.
> By doing this we would have a better chance to provide a stable REST 
> interface and allow others to provide their own implementations.
> 
> 2.       Since replacing the WS-Stack will affect many classes, I would like 
> to use this opportunity and also refactor the REST URLs to become more 
> RESTfull-Style. Currently there are URLs like '/create', '/update' and 
> '/delete/{roleId}'. I would like to refactor this to use matching HTTP 
> Operations (e.g. POST, PUT and DELETE), instead of coding the operation name 
> inside the URL.
> Of course this will have a major effect on the REST API, but from my point of 
> view, these changes should be done rather sooner than later (before many 3rd 
> party solutions are using Syncope).
> Of course we could make sure that this new REST API could still be backwards 
> compatible, but I would rather deliver the new REST API with sufficient 
> documentation within the next major release and not clutter the new 
> interfaces with backwards-compatible code.
> 
> What are your thoughts?

Fine for me but, please take care of the admin console as well.
Regards,
F.

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