From: Jay Balunas <jbalunas(a)redhat.com&gt; Subject: Re: [Aerogear-dev] Survey of web apis for persistence and basic security Date: August 31, 2012 4:12:41 PM GMT-03:00 To: aerogear-dev <aerogear-dev(a)redhat.com&gt; First, thanks for writing this up!! Its useful to see this all on one place. Data-binding to classes or generic property bags? * We want to take advantage of JavaEE, BV, etc... I think binding to classes will be important for this. * This does lead to portability concerns, because while Android is Java, iOS and others are not ** We'll need a metamodel for this, and should to things like OData and others How to handle data relations? * One of the best ways I've seen of handling this is to link to have options for some depth to be included * Any circular, or deep relationships should be a "link" object of some sort that points to the resource if needed How to handle binary data? * Blobs can be hashed, and sent as is, but would likely need a header/mimetype Explicit class schemas or schemaless * I want to make sure we're talking about the same thing, can you explain more? How to best handle local caching + sync? * This would be partially based on the client, but also on the serverside. * For our initial impl basic local caching is fine (or we leave it to the end user for now) * Sync, and more advanced offline syncing can wait for phase 2 imo Provide atomic counters? (most of these libraries do) * Yes, we'll likely need something like this. * Matthias - do you have any previous experience with this requirement? Manage clients with API keys? * That is a common way to do this * We should outline the different options Other questions: Model/entity based client storage, or database replication? On Aug 31, 2012, at 2:41 PM, Jay Balunas wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm posting Glen's gist on his review of existing apis for BaaS operations - https://gist.github.com/3495006 > > Any comments and feedback welcome! > > -Jay _______________________________________________ aerogear-dev mailing list aerogear-dev(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-dev