Can we build RESTful-like HTTP APIs using Tiddlers? Yes! 💯

[Abraham Samma]

Hello all 👋,

While solving the problem of making wikis hosted at Maarfapad public, I hit upon the idea of designing working HTTP APIs (that do not simply store tiddlers, but allow you to create any kind of X as a service you can imagine) using nothing but tiddlers. We could call there tiddlers design tiddlers  for your API.

I'd like your inputs. I'll be releasing the first working version of this project based on your comments.

Read about it here: https://abesamma.github.io/maarfapad-blog/index.html

Thanks 🙇

[TonyM]

Abraham,

Exciting stuff, I thought such approaches were open to us but could not articulate it. I understand your suggestion enough to be very excited, but also know insufficient to implement it once available without a bit more background. Please try and fill out the documentation for a less experienced developer but TiddlyWiki supper user. If nothing else please make reference the the technologies and methods one needs to know to implement this. 

Regards

Tony

[Abraham Samma]

Thanks Tony. Yes docs will be coming along shortly.

[TonyM]

Abraham,

Related but not directly to API's is this path I have requested support for, and may suggest an avenue for pseudo API's

That is: do not have them in tiddlywiki but allow tiddlywiki to make use of them.

Help from Web Developer - iframe interaction

Regards

Tony

[TonyM]

See also 

Read-only single tiddler view 

A Git Hub Issue

[Abraham Samma]

Absolutely. It's also possible to add a filter url query so you can filter what tiddlers you'd like the API endpoint to supply to TiddlyWiki:

e.g

/pub/mytiddlers?filter=[your filter here]

I am still brainstorming how to do this but I think this would be an interesting feature to have.

[TonyM]

See also Help from Web Developer - iframe interaction

On Friday, January 25, 2019 at 10:44:46 AM UTC+11, Abraham Samma wrote: