module Restfolia

Public: Restfolia: a REST client to consume and interact with Hypermedia API.

Against the grain, Restfolia is very opinionated about some REST’s concepts:

Aims only *JSON Media Type*.
All responses are parsed and returned as Restfolia::Resource.
Less is more. Restfolia is very proud to be small, easy to maintain and evolve.
Restfolia::Resource is Ruby object with attributes from JSON and can optionally contains *hypermedia links* which have to be a specific format. See the examples below.
All code is very well documented, using “TomDoc”:tomdoc.org style.

Obs: This is a draft version. Not ready for production (yet!).

References

You can find more information about arquitecture REST below:

“Roy Fielding’s”:roy.gbiv.com/untangled see this post for example: “REST APIs must be hypertext-driven”:roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypertext-driven
“Rest in Practice”:restinpractice.com, especially the chapter titled “Hypermedia Formats”.
“Mike Amundsen’s Blog”:amundsen.com/blog/
ROAR - “Resource Oriented Arquitectures in Ruby”:github.com/apotonick/roar it seems really good to build a hypermedia API, of course you can go with Sinatra+rabl solutions too.

Examples

# GET http://localhost:9292/recursos/busca
{ "itens_por_pagina" : 10,
  "paginal_atual" : 1,
  "paginas_totais" : 1,
  "query" : "",
  "total_resultado" : 100,
  "resultado" : [ { "id" : 1,
                    "name" : "Test1",
                    "links" : [ { "href" : "http://localhost:9292/recursos/id/1",
                          "rel" : "recurso",
                          "type" : "application/json"
                    } ]
                  },
                  { "id" : 2,
                    "name" : "Test2",
                    "links" : [ { "href" : "http://localhost:9292/recursos/id/2",
                          "rel" : "recurso",
                          "type" : "application/json"
                    } ]
                  }
                ],
  "links" : { "href" : "http://localhost:9292/recursos/busca",
      "rel" : "self",
      "type" : "application/json"
    },
}

# GET http://localhost:9292/recursos/id/1
{ "id"    : 1,
  "name"  : "Test1",
  "links" : { "href" : "http://localhost:9292/recursos/id/1",
              "rel" : "self",
              "type" : "application/json"
            }
}

# getting a resource
resource = Restfolia.at('http://localhost:9292/recursos/busca').get
resource.pagina_atual  # => 1
resource.resultado  # => [#<Resource ...>, #<Resource ...>]

# example of hypermedia navigation
r1 = resource.resultado.first
r1 = r1.links("recurso").get  # => #<Resource ...>
r1.name  # => "Test1"

Constants

VERSION

Public Class Methods

at(url) click to toggle source

Public: Start point for getting the first Resource.

url - String with the address of service to be accessed.

Examples

entry_point = Restfolia.at("http://localhost:9292/recursos/busca")
entry_point.get # => #<Resource ...>

Returns Restfolia::EntryPoint object.

# File lib/restfolia.rb, line 92
def self.at(url)
  EntryPoint.new(url)
end

create_resource(json) click to toggle source

Public: Call a Factory of Resources. This is a good place to override and returns a custom Resource Factory. By default, Restfolia uses Restfolia::ResourceCreator.

json - Hash parsed from Response body.

Returns Resource instance, configured at ResourceCreator. Raises ArgumentError if json is not a Hash.

# File lib/restfolia/resource_creator.rb, line 11
def self.create_resource(json)
  @creator ||= Restfolia::ResourceCreator.new
  @creator.create(json)
end