[aerogear-dev] [Aerogear Pipeline] Support for nested endpoints

Sebastien Blanc scm.blanc at gmail.com
Mon Mar 18 07:12:03 EDT 2013


Well, that would not be possible, for that you will have to create a
"child" pipe. But I agree, that is maybe no optimal ...


On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Summers Pittman <supittma at redhat.com>wrote:

>  On 03/15/2013 01:34 PM, Sebastien Blanc wrote:
>
> I like the idea but I will more see that has a method/function for the
> pipelineManager (and will be easier to implement in JS, I think) :
>
>  var myParentPipe =
> Aerogear.Pipeline({name:"parentPipe"}).pipes.parentPipe
>
>  var myChildPipe = Aerogear.Pipeline.fromParent(myParentPipe, {options} )
>
> What would it look like to get a child record from a parent?
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Douglas Campos <qmx at qmx.me> wrote:
>
>> What about this?
>>
>> Pipeline<Post> postPipeline = …
>> Post post = // get from the pipeline
>> Pipeline<Comment>
>> postPipeline.childPipelineForOrOtherWeirdName(Comment.class, post)
>>
>>
>> On 15/03/2013, at 12:26, Summers Pittman <supittma at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On 03/14/2013 04:48 AM, Matthias Wessendorf wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Sebastien Blanc <scm.blanc at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >> While I was playing with scaffolding and tried to build a simple Blog
>> Application with Aerogear I faced the current situation :
>> >> I have a Post object which contains many Comment objects. Now I want
>> to call my Post pipe to retrieve the related  comments, I have currently 2
>> options :
>> >>
>> >> /posts/1 -> assuming comments will be implicitly retrieved (eager
>> loading)
>> >> /comments/?postid=1
>> >>
>> >> But regarding our model the correct form should be :
>> >>
>> >> /posts/1/comments
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> +1
>> >> that is the ideal way to model URIs for "nested" resources.
>> >>
>> >> See [1], extracted from [2]
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> But, AFAIK,  with the current API, it is not possible to define this
>> last pattern  (at least for JS and iOs, confirmed by Matzew). When doing a
>> read we can pass an id option but as mentioned in the doc, this id will
>> always be append to the endpoint.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Well, it is possible - but in a very (IMO) ugly way:
>> >>
>> >> https://gist.github.com/matzew/6ab432e437b9a017a21d
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> IMO, we should be able to support this pattern but for now I'm not
>> really sure how to specify this in our API, so if you have any ideas
>> feedback this thread has been made for you !
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Suggestion: Enhance the read function - example:
>> >>
>> >> https://gist.github.com/matzew/04f069dfbed2cc77a8b4
>> > I'm thinking of the inverse myself.  Add a "ParentPath" property which
>> can be used to extract information from parent objects.
>> >
>> > https://gist.github.com/secondsun/17ce96082eda37dbd10e
>> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> -Matthias
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> [1]
>> http://www.infoq.com/resource/articles/rest-introduction/en/resources/figure2.jpg
>> >> [2] http://www.infoq.com/articles/rest-introduction
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Seb
>> >>
>> >>
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>> >> --
>> >> Matthias Wessendorf
>> >>
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