To answer this, yes, it's possible. Rails does it already, in some fashion. They have some convention for generating all routes, which I think is one of the most important take aways here, and they provide a DSL for implementing other routes very easily. From there, one could readily generate the majority of the WADL.
Jay is right though, it doesn't help with non-existant APIs :-) On 10/26/11 10:48 AM, "Kevin L. Mitchell" <kevin.mitch...@rackspace.com> wrote: >On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 15:30 -0700, Joseph Heck wrote: >> It sounds like even though most of us hate WADL, it's what we're >> expending effort after to make a consolidated API set. So unless Nati >> and Ravi want to switch to using Swagger (or something else), WADL is >> the direction we're heading. I totally agree with Daryl that reading >> it is a PITA, and am finding (from my part) that the only definitive >> way to know about writing the docs and documenting the authoritative >> API is to read the underlying code. (which is what I suspect Nati >> likely did with the pull request that adds in WADL for the >> Nova/OpenCompute extension API) > >I wonder if it would be possible to generate much of the WADL from >introspecting the code itself...surely the URL structure itself can be >extracted from the paste setup, and the XML templates code I recently >contributed could easily be traversed to provide at least a basic >description of the output. That could at least provide a starting point >for generating WADLs... > >(Of course, I propose this, having little idea of what actually goes in >a WADL, but still... ;) >-- >Kevin L. Mitchell <kevin.mitch...@rackspace.com> > > >_______________________________________________ >Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack >Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net >Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack >More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
