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[Matthew Jones]

Also, most tools have very limited capabilities via REST. When Sakai was
developed in 2005, the concept of REST was around, but it didn't really get
popular in the world until 2008-2010. Sakai uses all internal apis for
performance convenience.All of the initial tools were written mostly by the
same small team. Around 2008, Entitybroker was created to serve these
internal 'entities' and additional methods to the external interfaces via
REST, but that didn't get a whole lot of initial support other than from
the creator (Aaron Z) until lately. There is a a reasonably large effort
that was started, mostly around creating new interfaces for mobile, which
started late last year. I wonder how that's progressing?
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/MOBILE/Home

It's hard to support multiple interfaces though (internal, external REST,
external SOAP) since you have to make sure to keep them all tested and in
sync. In Sakai much of the business logic is in the view for some tools,
not in the service which also complicates things.


On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Bryan Holladay <holladay at longsight.com>wrote:

> Some of the REST urls are used as redirects for tools like LB
> and internal links.  For the Forums example:
>
> /direct/forum and /direct/forum_topic are used to redirect a user's
> browser to the forum or topic in the UI.
>
> If you want a data format, then you can use /direct/topic like:
>
>
> http://nightly2.sakaiproject.org:8082/direct/topic/site/791daf20-c980-4f43-911b-1ed97d5727f1.json
>
> This gives you the details for all forums and topics in that site.
>
> -Bryan
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Gregory Guthrie <guthrie at mum.edu> wrote:
>
>> I see several webServices interfaces and it is not so obvious to me how
>> to use them. Steve has pointed me to some examples in perl and Python for a
>> few of them, but if people really use these, are there more examples around
>> that could help understand usage?****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Right now I am trying  to poke at them using a REST interface from  the
>> web just to see how to use them, and to avoid the issues of programmatic
>> logins for now. I’m particularly interested in any REST usage of these via
>> web or curl.****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Also, if the interface says: “No Formats allowed” for both input and
>> outputs, how does one get the results?****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> As a specific example, the /direct/forum/ interface, what does it do? How
>> to use it?****
>>
>> ** **
>>
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