[aerogear-dev] Android - server endpoint

[Matthias Wessendorf]

Hey Marko,

thanks for the info!

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Marko Strukelj <mstrukel at redhat.com> wrote:
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> I want to share some links from Google I/O 2012 that describe current solution from Google with respect of ease of development - how to have a REST endpoint in support of client apps on multiple platforms.
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> One interesting solution is something they call Endpoints. It's AppEngine-centric, but you can think of AppEngine as your server-side wherever it's hosted. The idea is that you create your endpoint - a REST service, annotate it with some annotations and then use tooling to generate client library for your REST service.


here is already a blog entry that explains how to replace w/ JAX-RS


> And you can generate client libs in java, ObjectiveC, javascript ...
>

does one of the videos show the actual ObjC code generation ?

-Matthias



> A very nice demo of this (starts playing where the interesting part begins):
> http://youtu.be/NU_wNR_UUn4?t=9m24s
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> Note at 19:36 into the video (http://youtu.be/NU_wNR_UUn4?t=19m36s) a mentioned JSON description of deployed REST service, and API Explorer.
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> API Explorer is really cool stuff - you can explore your REST service from your browser, and interact with it. And JSON based metadata about the service allows direct usage in javascript libraries in the browser.
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> At 22:41 into the movie (http://youtu.be/NU_wNR_UUn4?t=22m41s) there is a demo of Google Plugin for Eclipse used to generate client side API from a web service.
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>
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> There is another interesting video on the topic:
> http://youtu.be/dylFNrvZ_3U?t=26m45s
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> It starts a bit slowly but it's necessary to explain what a demo app does, and then gets more interesting about 35:40 into the video (http://youtu.be/dylFNrvZ_3U?t=35m40s).
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> Some food for thought ...
>
> - marko
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