More thanks is due, to Devin and to Richard. Some of the fog of my ignorance is dispersing, I hope and believe.
Graham > On 14 Jun 2016, at 21:09, Devin Asay <devin_a...@byu.edu> wrote: > > >> On Jun 14, 2016, at 9:52 AM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> >> wrote: > >>> As you’ll see it’s a whole new world of functionality, and so simple >>> to access through LiveCode, using GET and POST requests. >> >> ...and with LC Server also easy to provide. > > That’s the rest of the story. In most of my projects I am both the creator > and consumer of the API. All in LiveCode. >> >> When designing a REST API I've found Vinay Sahni's "Best Practices for >> Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API" the best one-stop-shopping for good, >> clear ideas: >> http://www.vinaysahni.com/best-practices-for-a-pragmatic-restful-api >> >> Andre Garzia's revSpark library helps with implementing good REST APIs: >> http://andregarzia.com/pages/en/revspark/ >> >> Extra bonus points: if both your client and server are written in LiveCode, >> you can bypass JSON and use LSON instead, LiveCode's own native array >> serialization provided by arrayEncode and arrayDecode. These binary data >> streams can even be compressed with LC's built-in compress function for >> faster transport. >> >> Super-easy to work with in LC, and being as native to LC as JSON is to >> JavaScript you'll be hard-pressed to find a data format more efficient when >> sharing array data between LC clients and LC servers. >> >> In fact, if you have an API that may sometimes deliver to LC-based clients >> and sometimes to Web clients, you can take a tip from Vinay's article and >> have JSON as the default but allow the requesting URL to end with ".json" to >> specify JSON as the delivery format. > > Thanks for the great links, Richard! Bookmarked. > > Devin > > Devin Asay > Office of Digital Humanities > Brigham Young University > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
