[Gambas-user] Christmas gift

[adamnt42 at ...626...]

On Sat, 10 Sep 2016 09:33:34 +0200
Christof Thalhofer <chrisml at ...3340...> wrote:

> Am 09.09.2016 um 17:25 schrieb PICCORO McKAY Lenz:
> 
> > many programers like REST due have free of implementation of own protocol,
> > and if i want to cheap traffic, Json then definitely we will be in better
> > place in terms of payload, but complexity are higher, and i already know
> > that gambas its knowed by the easy of usage for programers
> 
> Please correct me if I'm wrong: REST came later and as I can see, the
> upcoming of REST ist somewhat an answer to the extreme complexity of SOAP.
> 
> For a REST webservice you need a good tutorial, but not really a
> framework. The only thing that is needed for REST is a router that maps
> url paths to functions and sends back the result via HTTP. The result
> can be anything, a file, an integer, a Json string, whatever.
> 
> Here is an example with the microframework Slim for PHP:
> https://arjunphp.com/creating-restful-api-slim-framework/
> 
> A router does a mapping like this:
> 
> <snip>
> > Method     URL                     Action
> > GET        /api/todos              Retrieve all todos
> > GET        /api/todos/search/bug   Search for todos with ‘bug’ in their name
> > GET        /api/todo/1             Retrieve todo with id == 1
> > POST       /api/todo               Add a new todo
> > PUT        /api/todo/1             Update todo with id == 1
> > DELETE     /api/todo/1             Delete todo with id == 1
> <snap>
> 
> > OH MEN this will be hard to implement and made a component! too much to
> > implement!?!!
> 
> My understanding: If you do REST it would be somewhat easy, if you do
> SOAP it would be horrible.
> 
> 
> Alles Gute
> 
> Christof Thalhofer
> 
> -- 
> Dies ist keine Signatur
> 

Ah, what would I know. SOAP was basically crap. Never worked. Not even in wundows. So to keep laying layers of ice cream over the top of a load of cow stuff just extends the life of something that should have been euthanased in the first place. 

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B Bruen <adamnt42 at ...3379... (sort of)>