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

On Mar 14, 2013, at 3:48 AM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew(a)apache.org&gt; wrote: On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Sebastien Blanc <scm.blanc(a)gmail.com&gt;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. +1 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 +1 - Ugly > > 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 +1 - So for JS we could just add a 'resource' (not crazy about that name) option to the read options which, if present, would be tacked on to the url after the id. -Matthias [1] http://www.infoq.com/resource/articles/rest-introduction/en/resources/fig... [2] http://www.infoq.com/articles/rest-introduction > > Seb > > > _______________________________________________ > aerogear-dev mailing list > aerogear-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-dev > -- Matthias Wessendorf blog: http://matthiaswessendorf.wordpress.com/ sessions: http://www.slideshare.net/mwessendorf twitter: http://twitter.com/mwessendorf___________________________________________... aerogear-dev mailing list aerogear-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-dev _______________________________________________ aerogear-dev mailing list aerogear-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-dev