[ecf-dev] rest API work

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Folks,

As per bug [1] there's been some work on simplifying Holger's most 
excellent REST API (as well as better leveraging the ECF remote services 
API).  These refactorings have now been released to head.  See [2] for 
up-to-date javadocs, and [3] for access to the source code.  See 
particularly the test code in org.eclipse.ecf.tests.remoteservice.rest 
for usage examples...but more example code is coming.  If others use the 
API and have example code, as usual all contributions will be 
appreciated. As well, it would be great to integrate this API into 
TweetHub for accessing the twitter service sometime soon.

With the improved integration with ECF remote services, it's now easily 
possible to expose an arbitrary rest-based service as an ECF remote 
service.  (e.g. twitter...or your favorite rest-based service).  It's 
*not* necessary to have the service be exposed via an ECF-based 
server/service (that is, any rest-based serviced can be accessed as a 
remote service).

We also have IP approval to use and distribute the json.org JSON parser 
implementation, so that those rest services that use json as the 
resource representation can parse JSON resources.  The json.org parser 
is now a bundle included in our dev.eclipse.org build:  org.json.  
Eventually, this bundle will probably move to Orbit, but in the mean 
time we will build it and deploy it with ECF.

Any thoughts/comments appreciated.

Scott

[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=294774
[2] http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/org.eclipse.ecf.docs/api/  
(org.eclipse.ecf.remoteservice.rest.* packages)
[3] http://wiki.eclipse.org/REST_abstraction_for_ECF