Le 2011-03-21 à 10:47, Andrew Kinnie a écrit : > Yeah I saw that documentation page, and the presentation. I could just swear > I saw previously an overview of how this works, what it does, and why it does > what it does what it does. I need a 30,000 ft (10,000 meter?) view. In the > mean time, passing the parameters seems straightforward enough with your > explanation I'll work on it from that perspective. > > Not sure if I can make WOWODC this year, unfortunately. Maybe, assuming I > don't go to WWDC.
If it helps, as of today we have 3 sessions about ERRest, including one talking about iOS too. > Thanks. This gives me a better start. > > Andrew > > On Mar 21, 2011, at 10:31 AM, Pascal Robert wrote: > >> >> Le 2011-03-21 à 10:16, Andrew Kinnie a écrit : >> >>> 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? >> >> http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WONDER/ERRest+Framework >> >> The presentation from Mike at WOWODC West 2009 and mine from WOWODC 2010 >> should have a lot of the stuff you need. And WOWODC 2011 will have a couple >> of presentations with ERRest stuff in it :-) >> >> And have a look at the ERRestRouteExample and Movies examples from Project >> Wonder. >> >>> 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. >> >> When you send data to the REST service, you don't post parameters, you post >> data in the body of the request. That data can be JSON or any other format >> that ERRest support. So for example, with CURL, you do something like this >> to create a new Device object: >> >> curl -X POST -d "{ 'type': 'Device', 'attribute1': 'value1', 'attribute2': >> 'value2' }" http://myurl/ra/Device >> >> Don't forget that REST use HTTP verbs, so a GET is to fetch data, POST to >> create new data (new instances of entities), PUT is to update data and >> DELETE. You shouldn't need to use arguments in the URLs for POST/DELETE/PUT >> operations, unless you need to pass a API key or something like that. >> >> And in your route controller, you use routeObjectForKey(), that method will >> find the data send by clients and convert to an EO. >> >>> 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/probert%40macti.ca >>> >>> This email sent to [email protected] >> > _______________________________________________ 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]
