Hi Cédrick, I think making something like jsonplaceholder would be quite easy.
Do you know about the Zinc-REST package/group ? It contains an example in its tests, ZnExampleStorageRestServerDelegate with unit tests in ZnExampleStorageRestServerDelegateTest which implements a generic data storage. Have a look ! BTW, recently I added ZnClient>>#forJsonREST, which uses either STONJSON (which is in the image) or NeoJSON (when loaded), so that you can more elegant code for this use case: ZnClient new url: 'https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts'; forJsonREST; get. ZnClient new url: 'https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts'; forJsonREST; contents: { #title->'Test'. #body->String loremIpsum } asDictionary; post. Sven > On 6 Jun 2020, at 09:44, Cédrick Béler <cdric...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Sven and all, > > Disclaimer: just another rather not important query (mainly for fun so don’t > hesitate to tell me to use the node packages instead ;-) ) > > To show API to students, I sometimes use > https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com. It’s nice to play with client requests. > I wonder if this would be interesting to have such tools in Pharo/Zn. Maybe > it exists already somehow (for Teapot eventually) ? > https://medium.com/codingthesmartway-com-blog/create-a-rest-api-with-json-server-36da8680136d > > From their GitHub, I discovered json-server + lowdb (based on lowdash) => all > nodes packages. > https://github.com/typicode. > > <GraphiqueCollé-6.tiff> > > It uses a db file db.json and I like such simple « databases ». I know > they're not real db. > https://github.com/typicode/lowdb > > To me, it could nearly be to me an elegant personal db even if I think this > is mostly used to test API’s. > Indeed, It’s often used in conjunction with node package faker > (https://github.com/marak/Faker.js/ (https://github.com/marak/Faker.js/). > I would like to use that to generate static websites from Ecstatic. > > The placeholder default website has limitations. For instance, the following > request creates a new post (but then you cannot see the result if you query > for posts just after) > > <GraphiqueCollé-5.png> > > > I wanted to go past the limitation of the placeholder site (the db.json > cannot be written). I can of course use the node package but you know :) > Might be not so straight to port though. > > So there are probably three open questions in this post: > 1) lowdb (I know this is not a database but it’s handy and I’d like such > usage in static website generation in conjunction with Ecstatic). Any already > existing experiments maybe ? I don’t think Voyage can do that. > 2) the API json-server based on routes (maybe a job for Teapot) ? > 3) the faker package as a fun exercice. > > What others think ? My priority would go for having some kind of lowdb (and > I’m pretty sure there are experiments around that - It reminds me a bit > sandstonedb from Ramon > http://onsmalltalk.com/sandstonedb-simple-activerecord-style-persistence-in-squeak. > > Cheers, > > Cédrick > > >
