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

[Summers Pittman]

On 03/14/2013 04:48 AM, Matthias Wessendorf wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Sebastien Blanc <scm.blanc at gmail.com 
> <mailto:scm.blanc at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     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*
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>     But regarding our model the correct form should be :
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>     */posts/1/comments*
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>
> +1
> that is the ideal way to model URIs for "nested" resources.
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> See [1], extracted from [2]
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>     *
>     *
>     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.
>
>
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> Well, it is possible - but in a very (IMO) ugly way:
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> https://gist.github.com/matzew/6ab432e437b9a017a21d
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>     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 !
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>
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> Suggestion: Enhance the read function - example:
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> 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

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> -Matthias
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> [1] 
> http://www.infoq.com/resource/articles/rest-introduction/en/resources/figure2.jpg
> [2] http://www.infoq.com/articles/rest-introduction
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>     Seb
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