btw, SegmentIO seems quite impressive aggregating a huge number of services. How have you found the extra level of indirection in practice? how has your experience been with the sources you've tried?
cheers -ben On 6 December 2017 at 06:06, Ben Coman <b...@openinworld.com> wrote: > Thanks Paul. It'll be good to review some concrete implementations, > and nice to see what services other other people find useful. > I got a momentary urge the create a Pharo Distribution or catalog entry > called > something like "SamplRest" with a GUI to explore available REST data > sources. > Marketing angle for Pharo would be helping less technical people get a > "live" hold of > data from these sources, and then incrementally script against those live > objects. > I guess a bit like SegmentIO but on your own desktop rather than through a > third party. > (but I've not got the time right now) > > cheers -ben > > > On 6 December 2017 at 02:46, Paul DeBruicker <pdebr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Ben, >> >> >> I've made a few REST Clients >> >> http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~pdebruic/Stripe >> http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~pdebruic/Tropo >> http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~pdebruic/SegmentIO >> >> And the elasticsearch one but its been advanced mostly lately by Sho >> Yoshida >> (https://github.com/newapplesho) here >> https://github.com/newapplesho/elasticsearch-smalltalk >> >> He has also made REST clients for Twilio, AWS, SendGrid, Salesforce, and >> Mixpanel among others. >> >> Norbert Hartl made one for Mandrill (Mailchimps transactional email >> service) >> http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~NorbertHartl/Mandrill >> >> And Francois Stephany made one for Postmark (another transactional email >> service) http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~PharoExtras/Postmark >> >> >> So those are some examples of different approaches. >> >> >> I also started/made a cross platform web client wrapper (just wraps calls >> to >> ZnClient or WebClient on Squeak) >> http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~pdebruic/HTTPAPIClient >> >> But IIRC I only used it in the Stripe API client. >> >> >> Hope this gives you some ideas about how to approach your own solution >> >> Paul >> >> >> >> Ben Coman wrote >> > I'm just about to write my first client interface to a REST service. >> > In some respects I understand this is as simple as doing GET responses >> > using Zinc, >> > but I'm inquiring about tutorials or libraries that might help. Most >> > of the stuff turned up by searches is about server-side of REST. >> > >> > cheers -ben >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html >> >> >
