For the auth part, using SPNEGO will put you in line with most other components.
-- Sean On Apr 14, 2015 9:37 AM, "Kurt Christensen" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Accumulo seems to invite the following structure for URIs. > > https://host/table/row > https://host/table/row/columnFamily > https://host/table/row/columnFamily/column > > On the other hand, because the various keys (row, columnFamily, column) > can be arbitrarily long, URIs built this way can be problematic. Some or > all of the key data may need to be URLencoded as well. > > For CRUD, the following seems to be common practice: > Create: Method="PUT" [or "POST"] > Read: Method="GET" > Update: Method="POST" > Delete: Method="DELETE" > > It seems to me that the whole user identification/authentication/authority > determination is the hard part for the general audience. You can't really > count on having a PKI/CAS infrastructure, which would solve that issue. > Stateful authentication could be done via log-in and made part of the > client's signature (perhaps a cookie). > > I'm just starting to go through "REST API Design Rulebook" by Mark Massé > (O'Reilly 2012). You might want to check it out. Here are the first few > "rules" from Chapter 2 (note the difference between the use of MUST versus > SHOULD). Rules continue throughout the book. Chapter 3: "Interaction Design > with HTTP" covers CRUD operations. > > Rule: Forward slash separator (/) must be used to indicate hierarchical > relationship > > Rule: A trailing forward slash (/) should not be included in URIs > > Rule: Hyphens (-) should be used to improve the readability of URIs > > Rule: Underscores (_) should not be used in URIs > [underscore is masked by underline] > > Rule: Lowercase letters should be preferred in URI paths > > Rule: File extensions should not be included in URIs > [I don't like this one. The author says that negotiation should be > according to an Accept request header.] > > Rule: Consistent subdomain names should be used for your APIs > (http://api.soccer.restapi.org) > > Rule: Consistent subdomain names should be used for your client developer > portal > (http://developer.soccer.restapi.org) > > I hope that helps. > > Kurt > > On 4/13/15 3:33 PM, vaibhav thapliyal wrote: > >> >> Dear all, >> I am trying to build a Rest-api for accumulo. I would like to know the >> minimum features that should be there in the rest api? >> >> Also are there any plans to make a rest api for accumulo by the >> development team at accumulo itself? >> Thanks and regards, >> Vaibhav Thapliyal >> >> > -- > > Kurt Christensen > P.O. Box 811 > Westminster, MD 21158-0811 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch > excellence." -Vince Lombardi >
