Hi Sergio,
Zinc-REST is part of the Zinc repository and a fork for Gemstone can be
found here:
https://github.com/GsDevKit/zinc/tree/gs_master/repository/Zinc-REST.package
Most part is to implement the code that generates the Swagger
specification for your ZnRESTCall subclasses. But it is no vodoo.
It becomes more complexe if you would actually like to use the swagger
specification on the server site to do request data validation and error
handling,.... I currently use Swagger only for documentation purposes.
Amber limitations? Not really.
It took me some time to figure out how to configure my servers to cope
with CORS for the Swagger-UI and my current jsonwebtocken security
mechanism is not supported by the SwaggerUI and I had to allow insecure
access for the Swagger UI to the Gemstone server.
The Amber Swagger-JS integration works quite nicely.
I did not publish the code on Github because the integration is so tiny.
I can send it to you if you like.
Or no,... let me prepare a demo based on the Swagger petshop demo and I
will put it online.
Might take a day or two until I find some time.
Sebastian
Am 23.06.2015 um 13:05 schrieb sergio_101:
hey, sebastian.. this looks great! this looks like what i am after..
did you run into any problems or limitations using Amber as a front
end? I have not tried Amber yet, so this might be the right time to
give it a shot.. where did you find zinc-rest? a quick search turns up
references to it.. should i be able to just install it via my image?
andrew - i thought about using the seaside rest add on, but seaside
seems to be alot of overhead just to run a rest server..
mariano - i am thinking about using api token..
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 3:13 PM Sebastian Heidbrink <shei...@yahoo.de
<mailto:shei...@yahoo.de>> wrote:
Am 23.06.2015 um 11:40 schrieb sergio_101:
I have been a project coming up that I really onlyneed a restful
API on.
The front end will be first built on a mobile device(iOS )then
back on possibly android, with a very stripped down web application.
i would like to use pharo/gemstones as the database.
is there a project out there that allows for such restful API
development in pharo land? This would be so fun!
thanks
I am not so sure what you mean exactly but this is my stack.
I use pure Zinc-REST on the Gemstone side and the REST API is
described in Swagger-Spec from within Gmestone.
Clients are VBA, Amber and Pharo and they utilize the Swagger API
spec to access the server.
Works pretty well and is much more preformant than the intial
Pharo MongoDB backend I initially used.
Have a look into http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~HeSe/Swagger-Spec
<http://smalltalkhub.com/#%21/%7EHeSe/Swagger-Spec>
There you can find most of the needed Swagger implementation some
minor details like type constants are missing.
Once your Gemstoneserver knows how to host his Swagger-Spec you
can host it via https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-ui
This saves a lot of explaning time to client developers.
Sebastian
