I am attempting to use ERRest as an interface for a push notification server for our iOS apps, and am having some difficulties, partly related to never having used Rails or Rest to begin with. I am looking to have the server receive json files for the notifications from the web side of our company, and then process them, sending appropriate notifications back to the Apple APN server for each device. Also it needs to be able to receive json requests from the devices themselves when they install the app and turn on notifications. So it seemed to me that ERRest would be a good option for a WO app which takes JSON and (through Javapns google code project) sends Apple what Apple needs to send the notifications.
I watched Mike's screencast for a WO-NoVA from last year, and I think I understand some of the basics. Is there an ERRest tutorial some place? I seem to remember there was a good overview in the Wonder docs someplace, but do not seem to be able to find it now. Basically, I created a couple subclasses of ERXDefaultRouteController for each of a couple entities, and have added a bunch of rest related stuff into the Application constructor. I'm not, however, very clear on what I need to do to have these requests to the server provide me with data as parameters to the requests. I gather that if I have a Register action in my device controller, the devices could call a url like http://myurl/ra/Device/Register but I am just fundamentally missing something about how parameters would work. I gather there is an @PathParam("myparametername") MyParemeterClass myLocalInstanceOfThatClass) but I'm not sure if this is the way this should do it, or if there are alternatives. I'm also not exactly sure how this works. So I guess my fundamental question is where can I find anything close to a tutorial or overview of ERRest? (I have looked at the ERRestRouteExample example app) Thanks in advance Andrew _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
