> On 23 Jun 2015, at 22:55, Sebastian Heidbrink <shei...@yahoo.de> wrote: > > 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.
Yes please write something about this, this is interesting for many people. > 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> 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 >> 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 >
