[Engine-devel] REST API calls from the GUI

[Keith Robertson]

Not sure if this is possible now but, I would like the front-end to 
expose an authenticated hook to the API so that plug-ins can call 
RESTful methods.  It would enable plug-in writers to do all sorts of 
interesting things in their plug-ins with the RESTful API.

Cheers,
Keith

On 02/12/2013 11:13 AM, Libor Spevak wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to ask, if there have been discussions about an option to 
> call REST API services directly from the Frontend (GWT layer)? GWT 
> compiles Java frontend-side to Javascript, calls to backend services 
> are performed "transparently" by the framework using AJAX support. 
> But, there is still a need to have a special set of data objects and 
> the server-side logic can duplicate.
>
> Java REST API SDK enables to build "thick" client. The calls are 
> realized using e.g. Apache HttClient and supported libraries. I think 
> the requirements of GWT can be a little bit different, but something 
> overlaps.
>
> I found several links about REST API support from GWT, so there is 
> something for inspiration...
>
> - http://www.spiffyui.org/
> - http://www.zackgrossbart.com/hackito/gwt-rest/
> - http://code.google.com/p/gwt-rest/
> - http://restygwt.fusesource.org/
>
> But, do you think it would be useful and what drawbacks can occur 
> (authentication, authorization, response times, need to support larger 
> set of services, painful refactoring, ...)?
>
> Regards,
> Libor
>
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