Re: [windup-dev] REST <- graph api?

patternfly for the UI? Thanks, Brad Davis Director of FSI Solutions, Red Hat Email: bdavis(a)redhat.com <mailto:bdavis@redhat.com> | c: 980.226.7865 <tel:980.226.7865> | http://www.redhat.com <http://www.redhat.com/> On Jul 1, 2016, at 9:45 PM, Ondrej Zizka <ozizka(a)redhat.com <mailto:ozizka@redhat.com>> wrote: > +1 to getting this straight before getting deep into Windup 3. > > To those 4 approaches in the document, I would suggest one more. > Kind of a hybrid. > > The point of this, I assume, is to reduce the repetitive patterns in the > chain: graph -> Java Model -> Java service -> DTO -> REST -> JSON -> TS > service -> JS model -> Angular 2. > So we should reuse the information already contained somewhere. > > The most frequent scenarios I can forsee are: > > 1) Query by property, get the resulting objects, optionally with some > nested objects. > 2) Start with a set of objects, query some other objects in some > relation to those. > 3) Start with one object and get a tree starting with that object, based > on some recursive relation. > 4) More complex queries. > > I suggest to stick with something simple, so for 4), we could have > custom services. > > For 1) 2) 3), we could have a simple "URL to objects" schema, not trying > to be a generic query tool. > It could reuse the Models. > Examples (made up): > 1) /graph/File{path=...}!out:fileToProject,getClassifications,:... > -- File objects with given properties with objects from relations > defined behind ! attached to it. > 2) /graph/Project/id=[1,2,3]/out:projectToFile/{path=...} > 3a) /graph/Project/id=1//in:parent!out:fileToProject -- will query > what's under that relation > 3b) /graph/Project/id=1//in:parent!getProjects -- will use the method > to attach the objects. > > Maybe it's quite similar to what's proposed in the doc under 4, only a > bit more type oriented, and also more use-case oriented and less generic. > > my2c. > Ondra > > > On 1.7.2016 23:28, Jess Sightler wrote: >> I don't think we ever discussed this in the Thursday meeting. My mic >> problems probably didn't help with that (sorry about that). I have >> started a document to discuss a few different approaches to building >> REST services for the web application. >> >> Keep in mind the following high level requirements: >> >> - Support querying of data easily for both the global configuration >> graph (eg, projects, groups etc) as well as for the individual graphs >> >> - Support persisting new data to the graph for the configuration graph >> >> - Support easy marshalling to/from ECMAScript objects >> >> >> I have added these to the document as well: >> >> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jJz-NuTI00A7VcP7K58Gv6sWGyC8CuMsc5MVl... >> >> >> Feel free to add your thoughts as well. >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jess >> >> >> >> On 06/26/2016 07:26 PM, Ondrej Zizka wrote: >>> Hi devs, >>> >>> How about creating a layer that would query the graph based on a >>> REST URL? >>> I.e. instead of creating a REST endpoint for each service, we could do >>> something like >>> >>> localhost//windup/rest/graph/ProjectModel/id-48984/out-projectTofile/with-... >>> >>> Or some subset of Gremlin perhaps... >>> Just an idea. >>> >>> Ondra >>> _______________________________________________ >>> windup-dev mailing list >>> windup-dev(a)lists.jboss.org <mailto:windup-dev@lists.jboss.org> >>> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/windup-dev >> _______________________________________________ >> windup-dev mailing list >> windup-dev(a)lists.jboss.org <mailto:windup-dev@lists.jboss.org> >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/windup-dev > > _______________________________________________ > windup-dev mailing list > windup-dev(a)lists.jboss.org <mailto:windup-dev@lists.jboss.org> > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/windup-dev _______________________________________________ windup-dev mailing list windup-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/windup-dev