Thanks! It's great to see this land in less than a week!

Sam

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 6:59 PM, Eli Perelman <[email protected]> wrote:

> Closing the loop on this, I just landed [1] a change to the device service
> so the need for headers is gone, and all the routes are contextual to a
> device selected in /devices, per Sam's request.
>
> Thanks Sam!
>
> Eli Perelman
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1229084
>
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Eli Perelman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hey Sam,
>>
>> That was a conscious decision we made because referring to a particular
>> device could be more than just a serial number, it could also need a remote
>> host and port.
>>
>> The other option would be to make :id a reference to a device not
>> directly by serial number. Right now we store a reference to a device
>> session via a hash which is returned via a response header, we could
>> potentially make that session identifier the ID used in the URL, and then
>> the other methods could map to that interface.
>>
>> I will agree with you that your proposal is more RESTy. Feel free to file
>> a bug and I'll look into it.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Eli Perelman
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Sam Giles <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey
>>>
>>> I was taking a look at the fxos-device-service to see if I could easily
>>> add B2GDroid support and thought the method of requesting a command to
>>> apply to a specific device was odd.
>>>
>>> The API has the concept of `/devices` which will give you a collection
>>> of the attached devices identified by their adb ids.  You can then get a
>>> particular device by getting `/devices/:id`.
>>>
>>> Following that, the other commands don't seem to relate to the adb
>>> device id - and I *just* spotted: unless you use a header.
>>>
>>> Wouldn't using the device ID in the URL give us more transparent URLs by
>>> basing the URLs on the resources and related actions the consumer wants to
>>> perform?
>>>
>>> For example:
>>>
>>> POST /devices/:id/restart
>>> GET /devices/:id/logs
>>> GET /devices/:id/properties
>>> etc.
>>>
>>> Sam
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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