On Jan 5, 2013, at 6:20 PM, Jerome Velociter <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Vincent, > > That's a good idea and that's something I had in mind for some time too :) > > What part(s) exactly of our REST module do you imagine moving to commons ? Just the part that bridges Restlet and our component model. > I ask because to be honest I'm not a big fan of how our REST API is built and > what API it exposes ; and moving it to commons would be to "promote" it in a > way. What don't you like specifically? Maybe worth a separate thread? > So, in my opinion, and since the subject in itself drags interest (at least > from me), I think it would be a good occasion to try and find out what > direction we want to to go regarding REST. > If there is interest, I can take some time and gather my thoughts/feedback as > why I think the current REST API/implementation is limited. Sure. My idea was just to move the generic part that makes us able to add REST resources as components into commons and then make some proposal for REST URLs for the Rendering module (after checking what we already have,). Thanks -Vincent > Jerome > > Le 05/01/13 16:27, Vincent Massol a écrit : >> Hi guys, >> >> Just got an idea about a talk I could give at a conference: Building a wiki, >> with XWiki Rendering and AngularJS. >> >> The ideas are: >> * Demonstrate XWiki Rendering through a use case which is to build a simple >> wiki >> * Use a recent/modern framework like AngularJS to draw people to the talk ;) >> * Talk about XWiki >> * Get people to use xwiki rendering and grow the developer base for xwiki >> rendering >> >> I think we're close to be able to implement this but it's missing one thing: >> ability to call XWiki Rendering from REST. >> >> Thus I think it would be a good idea to move our REST framework into XWiki >> Commons and then in XWiki Rendering add a REST module to expose rendering >> operations through REST. >> >> WDYT? >> >> Thanks >> -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
