On Jan 5, 2013, at 7:53 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 01/05/2013 12:20 PM, Jerome Velociter 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 ? >> 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. >> 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. > > CMIS? I know you're responding to Jerome. Note that the goal here is not to offer a remote API to access content but to offer a REST API only for the rendering services, namely, convert some content in one syntax into another syntax, possibly with transformations applied. Thanks -Vincent >> 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. >> >> 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 >>> > > > -- > Sergiu Dumitriu > http://purl.org/net/sergiu > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
