On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Sebastien Blanc <scm.blanc@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

-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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