CONTRIB: Rest support for MonoRail
Chris Ortman
Right now basic action routing and content negotiation are working. I've tried to follow rails conventions in the hopes of keeping things simple. Right now it requires .NET 3.5 but it could be made to work on 2.0 if needed (the syntax will be uglier though)
A sample controller looks like this:
[ControllerDetails(Area="V1")]
public class CustomersController : RestfulController
{
public void Index()
{
var customers = Customer.FindAll();
PropertyBag["customers"] = customers;
RespondTo(format =>
{
format.Xml(xml => xml.Serialize(customers));
format.Html(html => html.DefaultResponse());
});
}
public void Show(int ID)
{
Customer c = Customer.FindById(ID);
RespondTo(format =>
{
format.Xml(response => response.Serialize(c));
format.Html(response => response.DefaultResponse ());
});
}
public void Create([XmlBind] Customer createMe)
{
Customer.AddNew(createMe);
RespondTo(format =>
format.Xml(response => response.Empty(201, headers => headers["Location"] = UrlFor(createMe.ID.ToString()))));
}
public void New()
{
RespondTo(format => format.Xml(response => response.Serialize(new Customer())));
}
public void Update(int id, [XmlBind] Customer customer)
{
customer.ID = id;
Customer.UpdateCustomer (customer);
RespondTo(format =>
format.Xml(response => response.Empty(200)));
}
public void Destroy(int ID)
{
Customer.Delete(ID);
RespondTo(format =>
format.Xml(response => response.Empty(200)));
}
}
Action routing is as follows:
GET /controller => index
POST /controller => create
GET /controller/new => new
GET /controller/id => show
PUT /controller/id => update
DELETE /controller/id => destroy
Format can be specified on the querystring
/controller/1.rails?format=xml
or as an accept header
curl -i -H Accept:application/xml /controller/1.rails
If you want to do some url rewriting with an ISAPI filter it gives you an easy way to support urls like
/controller/1.xml
/controller/1.html
In order for views to work, they need to follow a convention of
Action_format.brail
Index_html.brail
Index_xml.brail
Included in my zip file is:
Castle.MonoRail.Rest -- extensions to monorail
Custom Castle Build -- changes needed to MonoRail to make this work
Sample website
Sample Ruby Client
Tests
Eventually I'd like to get this into the Contrib repository, but not quite ready for that yet.
I'd appreciate any feedback / improvements you may have.
Thanks
Hamilton Verissimo
Pretty cool syntax too!
On 9/18/07, Chris Ortman <chris...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd appreciate any feedback / improvements you may have.
--
Cheers,
hamilton verissimo
ham...@castlestronghold.com
http://www.castlestronghold.com/
Colin Ramsay
RespondTo looks interesting - isn't this taken from RoR? Something like that could be helpful when creating an ajax application - so some things serve up JSON and HTML...
Very cool
Love
Colin Ramsay
WTF. I have no idea why gmail just randomly decided to append "love" at the end of my last email but I'd just like to say that... well, I don't think of you in that way Chris. Sorry.
:>
Fábio Batista
=> ..., I love you
delegate(MyType x) { ... }, I hate you
On 9/18/07, Chris Ortman <chris...@gmail.com> wrote:
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Fábio David Batista
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Hamilton Verissimo
I thought you intended to write "loved it" but you were in a hurry.
Colin Ramsay
My browser knows that at heart, I'm a lover not a coder. ;)
Anyway, Chris: Love the syntax and the idea!
> > > format.Html (html => html.DefaultResponse());
chriso
conventions as close as possible as my eventual hope is a .NET service
with the client written using Ruby+ActiveResource
On Sep 18, 3:48 pm, "Colin Ramsay" <colinram...@gmail.com> wrote:
> RespondTo looks interesting - isn't this taken from RoR? Something like that
> could be helpful when creating an ajax application - so some things serve up
> JSON and HTML...
>
> Very cool
> Love
>
Benjamin Lovell
would *love* to see this in MR asap!
Kevin Williams
- I can't wait to get home and try this.
Great timing on your part - I actually need this next week. :) I'll
try to help if I can.
Are we too close to RC3 to put this in trunk?
--
Cheers,
Kevin Williams
http://kevwil.com
http://www.almostserio.us
http://kevwil.haiku.com
On Sep 18, 2007, at 2:30 PM, "Chris Ortman" <chris...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> <mrrestsupport.zip>
Hamilton Verissimo
> Are we too close to RC3 to put this in trunk?
Yep
sradack
that it's available. I'd really like to see this make it into Castle.
> mrrestsupport.zip
> 5480KDownload
goodwill
C# 2.0 too?
> mrrestsupport.zip
> 5480KDownload
Hamilton Verissimo
chriso
probably get the changes needed to MR for this into the trunk though,
they are very small.
On Sep 18, 7:58 pm, "Hamilton Verissimo"
<hamm...@castlestronghold.com> wrote:
> On 9/18/07, Kevin Williams <ke...@bantamtech.com> wrote:
>
> > Are we too close to RC3 to put this in trunk?
>
> Yep
>
> --
> Cheers,
> hamilton verissimo
> hamm...@castlestronghold.comhttp://www.castlestronghold.com/
goodwill
nice.
On Sep 19, 10:16 am, "Hamilton Verissimo"
<hamm...@castlestronghold.com> wrote:
> Check thishttp://www.developer.com/net/csharp/article.php/3598381
> hamm...@castlestronghold.comhttp://www.castlestronghold.com/
chriso
I had originally started with this
RespondTo(
xml=> xml.Empty(201,responseHeaders)
);
But changed it because the ORCAS intellisense made it a real pain to
get xml typed.
On Sep 18, 5:40 pm, Kevin Williams <ke...@bantamtech.com> wrote:
> Wow, that looks a lot like my idea from last year:http://www.almostserio.us/articles/2006/06/28/accept-header-responder...
> - I can't wait to get home and try this.
>
> Great timing on your part - I actually need this next week. :) I'll
> try to help if I can.
>
> Are we too close to RC3 to put this in trunk?
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Kevin Williams
>
> http://kevwil.comhttp://www.almostserio.ushttp://kevwil.haiku.com
>
> On Sep 18, 2007, at 2:30 PM, "Chris Ortman" <chrisort...@gmail.com>
Kevin Williams
use this next week, I can't use 3.5 yet. I can help if you like.
Colin Ramsay
>>> format.Xml (response => response.Empty(200)));
chriso
syntax would look like
RespondTo(delegate(ResponseFormat format) {
format.Xml(delegate(ResponseHandler response)
{
response.Serialize(customer);
});
format.Html(delegate(ResponseHandler response)
{
response.DefaultResponse();
});
});
Although I'm not sure how long I'd want to maintain 2.0
compatibility....having to have #ifdef DotNet35 all over the place
doesn't excite me a lot.
If you want 2.0 support for this though, I will get the code into the
contrib repository.
> > >>> format.Xml(response => response.Empty(200)));
chriso
https://svn.castleproject.org/svn/castlecontrib/Castle.MonoRail.Rest
For now I've created a separate branch for .NET 2.0 support, feel free
to start on any conversion work you need to do, I don't have time to
get to it today, but as I make changes to the code I'll try to make
them 2.0 friendly.
Kevin Williams
rather just changing the code to make it work in vs2005. I hope that was
an acceptable assumption.
chriso
Hamilton Verissimo
couldnt find it.
Roelof Blom
k-dub
so I don't know how to port it back to 2.0. Any ideas?
