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Re: generic rest-api

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Am 22.11.2016 um 01:59 schrieb Arne Vajhøj:
> On 11/21/2016 7:08 PM, Philipp Kraus wrote:
>> I'm writing a framework which should be also accessable with a
>> webservice. At the moment I'm using Jetty for the server.
>
>> Is there any componente or framework to create a structure like this
>> and is also portable to Tomcat, Jetty and Glassfish?
>
> Most likely any solution will be portable among any Java web container.
>
>>                                                        I have got
>> a set of objects and each object should be defined as a webservice
>> with a REST-API which returns the object as a JSON structure.
>>
>> I need a call like http://server/"any path"/object_identifier/state
>> which returns the current state of the object (I can get these
>> information by calling a method). And also I need for each method in
>> the object a call like http://server/"any
>> path"/object_identifier/methodname The best case should be an
>> automatically generation of all this URLs.
>>
>>                                                    I'm knowing
>> Jersy, but I think I need some wrapper code around to do this.
>
> The standard way is using JAX-RS.
>
> I believe that Spring has its own non-standard thing.
>
> http://server/"any path"/object_identifier/state is easy
> as it is just a normal RESTful GET request.
>
> http://server/"any path"/object_identifier/methodname is
> tricky because it is not RESTful but RPC style.
>
> RESTful only have resources and GET, POST, PUT and DELETE.
>
> Arne
>
Yes, you should use a JAX-RS implementation. There are many of them, 
however. These links (one for Apache CXF, the other for Jersey/Jackson) 
were useful to me:

https://www.nabisoft.com/tutorials/java-ee/producing-and-consuming-json-or-xml-in-java-rest-services-with-jersey-and-jackson

https://idodevjobs.wordpress.com/2014/08/30/develop-a-simple-restful-webservices-using-apache-cxf-and-spring-framework/

You pays your money and you takes your choice.
--Sebastian

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generic rest-api Philipp Kraus <philipp.kraus.flashpixx@gmail.com> - 2016-11-21 16:08 -0800
  Re: generic rest-api Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-11-21 19:59 -0500
    Re: generic rest-api Sebastian <nowhere@nirvana.org> - 2016-11-22 21:46 +0100
      Re: generic rest-api Philipp Kraus <philipp.kraus.flashpixx@gmail.com> - 2016-11-29 00:18 -0800

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