Hi, This is the first thread I initiate on sling dev, so I apologize in advance if I'm breaking any conventions.
I've written a bundle that allows sling component developers to quickly define a hypermedia API for components. The tools contain a Sightly Use class for Sightly components, but also a generic utility that can be used anywhere, like in a jsp component. It uses hypermedia to drive the state of the application (e.g a consumer uses links and forms to change the state) and uses microdata [0] to define an easy to parse structure. The API can then be consumed by bots or used in testing, while using the same HTML as the media type for the API as the browser. You can find the bundle here [1] if you'd like to have a look. The readme has some examples and you can quickly try it out with a generic python client [2]. What do you think about putting this in the contrib/ dir in sling and about the idea in general? Looking forward to some responses. - Andrei Dulvac --- [0] http://www.w3.org/TR/microdata/ [1] https://github.com/dulvac/hapi [2] https://github.com/dulvac/hapi#consuming-the-api
