REST Endpoints: Am I required to do serialization myself?

[Adam Tuttle]

Hi all...

I'm setting up REST endpoints on 1.9 for the first time today. I got it working by using serializeJson() in my endpoint CFC to serialize to a string.

Just wanted to check that this is by design. Is it, or am I missing something? I don't really see any mention of formatting data for return in the documentation:

http://trac.mach-ii.com/machii/wiki/IntroToRESTEndpoints

Thanks!

Adam

[Kurt Wiersma]

I believe that is correct. At the moment we don't have anything
special built into Mach II to handle serialization for REST.

--Kurt

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[Adam Tuttle]

Thanks Kurt!

On Monday, April 23, 2012 3:39:27 PM UTC-4, kwiersma wrote:

I believe that is correct. At the moment we don't have anything
special built into Mach II to handle serialization for REST.

--Kurt

On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Adam Tuttle <ad...@fusiongrokker.com> wrote:
> Hi all...
>
> I'm setting up REST endpoints on 1.9 for the first time today. I got it
> working by using serializeJson() in my endpoint CFC to serialize to a
> string.
>
> Just wanted to check that this is by design. Is it, or am I missing
> something? I don't really see any mention of formatting data for return in
> the documentation:
>
> http://trac.mach-ii.com/machii/wiki/IntroToRESTEndpoints
>
> Thanks!
> Adam
>
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> To post to this group, send email to mach-ii-for-coldfusion@googlegroups.com

[Adam Tuttle]

Follow-up question: Does the endpoint name in mach-ii.xml need to match the URI?

I originally started with an endpoint name of "sessions", and it worked. I decided to rename it to "sessionCollection" because I was going to split out the collection and members into different CFCs. Doing that seemed to break it. (With MACHII_CONFIG_MODE = 1 in Application.cfc) Changing it back to just "sessions" seemed to fix it.

If the endpoint name does need to be something specific, and is not just arbitrary, then I don't think the docs explain that well enough. :)

Thanks!

Adam