I have, apparently, a fairly simple question about implementing a data access client that strictly adheres to the architectural principles of REST. First, suppose I have a well-managed REST API that I want to use with a Django application. I will start by opening the available services (edited for later observation) :
GET example.com/services/ HTTP/1.1
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<services>
<service>
<name>Widgets</name>
<link>http://example.com/services/widgets/</link>
<item_link>http://example.com/services/widgets/{widget_id}/</item_link>
</service>
<service>
<name>Factories</name>
<link>http://example.com/services/factories/</link>
<item_link>http://example.com/services/factories/{factory_id}/</item_link>
</service>
...
</services>
Now, since I am building a Django application based on the consumption of this API, how will I continue to learn these services RESTfully? To adhere to the principles of REST, my application must be managed by the resulting hypermedia. I believe that the first step is quite simple - interaction with the service by name. I created a Django view as follows:
def get_service(request, service_name):
doc = etree.parse(urllib.urlopen('http://example.com/services/'))
uri = doc.xpath("service/name[.='%s']/following-sibling::*" % service_name)[0].text
...
( ):
GET example.com/services/widgets/ HTTP/1.1
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<widgets>
<item_link>http://example.com/services/widgets/{widget_id}/</item_link>
<widget>
<id>1</id>
<name>Whizbang Foobar</name>
<link>http://example.com/services/widgets/1</link>
</widget>
...
</widgets>
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def get_item(request, service_name, item_id):
doc = etree.parse(urllib.urlopen('http://example.com/services/'))
uri = doc.xpath("service/name[.='%s']/following-sibling::item_link" % service_name)[0].text
...
:
GET example.com/services/widgets/1 HTTP/1.1
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<widget>
<id>1</id>
<name>Whizbang Foobar</name>
<tags>foo bar baz ham eggs</tags>
<index_link>http://example.com/services/widgets/</index_link>
</widget>