On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 7:30 AM, Santiago Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> El mar, 15-04-2008 a las 03:59 -0700, Kevin Brown escribió: > > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 2:54 AM, Ian Boston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Is the intention with the rest based apis for opensocial in shindig to > > > just provide the JS client libraries and leave the implementation of > the > > > server side of the api to the implementor. > Yes. > > > or > > > > > > will Shindig be implementing a rest based server component, with DB > > > backend > The first version will come with good support for relational databases, as is the common case. > I wonder if using a very simple CouchDB backend could make sense. > CouchDB offers a DB with native json API and javascript running in the > server, so at least propotype support for initial experiments. > Since the server is based on Abdera and Abdera already has an adapter for CouchDB, this should be easy. Jun It looks a great tool for this, though for a prototype python + > simplejson + some dictionaries can actually be a similar very simple > framework. Or s/python/<your favorite dynamic language>/ :) > > > > > RESTful APIs are in development now, though nothing has been committed > yet. > > See mail archives for discussion. I'd expect the first commit within the > > next week or two at most. The RESTful spec was just finalized last week > -- > > we need a little time! :) > > > > Also, is there any intention to use POST on the rest URL's to do updates > to > > > social data where it makes sense... sorry if this has been mentioned > > > already. > > > > > > We'll do whatever the spec requires. > > > > +1, ReST requires POST/PUT for non-idempotent request, and *updates* are > always non-idempotent. Even if I'm not following the spec right now, I > would be very surprised if the spec used GET for updates. But this, as > Kevin said, belongs to the spec ground. > > -- > Santiago Gala > http://memojo.com/~sgala/blog/ <http://memojo.com/%7Esgala/blog/> > >
