Example of a REST server

[Adrian Cole]

Hi, folks.

I know that we've spoken a lot about a rest api, lately.  For example, we had a nice session at the api-craft event last month, and a myriad of chats on irc and twitter.

I figured I'd throw together a straw-man of a read-only api to start a more concrete discussion.  Have a look at the api of the example I just threw out.

https://github.com/Netflix/denominator/pull/237

While the implementation is a bit more science project than our prod server at Netflix, the api is almost the same.

If anyone is interested in helping with a production grade OSS api server project, ping back!  As always, this sort of stuff is very good CloudPrize fodder.

Cheers,

-A

[Adrian Cole]

This is now a full-write example.  Ex.

 curl -X PUT http://localhost:8080/zones/Z3I0BTR7N27QRM/recordsets -d'{

  "name": "test.myzone.com.",

  "type": "TXT",

  "ttl": 1800,

  "records": [{

    "txtdata": "made in norway"

  }, {

    "txtdata": "made in sweden"

  }]

}'

[Colm MacCárthaigh]

Interesting. Does the "txtdata" type take an array too? e.g. 

"txtdata" : [ "made in ireland", "made in denmark" ]

TXT records are seriously weird - internally they are arrays, even though recordsets are also arrays of records. 

--
Colm

[Adrian Cole]

No, each would have whatever the json encoding is for quotes strings.  You could always try it by firing up the example against your account and doing a list :)