HarryH posted some very interesting REST services stuff in his Lift preso (I
learned a thing or two):
http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dcbpz3ck_24f3v83ggz
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 7:48 AM, Jeppe Nejsum Madsen <je...@ingolfs.dk>wrote:
> Niels Boldt <nielsbo...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > What is the best way to create a rest service in lift that support both
> xml
> > and json.
> >
> > Are there any tools to use besides lift-json. The end result of my
> service
> > call will be a pojo object that is grabbed from a database and should be
> > transformed to the appropriate output.
> >
> > I hoped to do that in a generic way, whether it is xml, json or something
> > third
>
> Not sure what your main problem (REST api part or obj->response) is but:
>
> The API part goes something like this:
>
> LiftRules.dispatch.append {
> case Req("api" :: "thing" :: Nil, "json", GetRequest) => // function that
> returns a Box[LiftResponse]
> }
>
> so you can create different functions based on the request suffix (ie
> json/xml) and return appropriate responses.
>
> The Lift ORM, Mapper, recently got an "asJSON" method to return contents of
> an object as JSON (it uses lift-json).
>
> I'm not aware of any Scala/Lift generic XML serialization stuff, but you
> can use any Java lib for this. For one-off XML structures, it's very
> simple to create the XML inline in Scala....
>
> /Jeppe
>
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