[rules-users] KIE-WB, Drools-WB Authoring REST api

[Alexander Herwix]

Hey Mark, 

first of all thanks for the information but I disagree. I would see providing a CRUD api as a helpful feature as this would provide a single place for asset management. Having access via GIT is fine, but then I have to sync the repo location (changes, renames, deletes) and the GIT VFS implementation is touted to be pluggable, so asset management with a custom VFS provider could become a real pain. This might be an edge use case as not everyone needs to provide a custom-ui and run the wb at the same time, however, I still think it's a valid one, especially if you think about native mobile apps.  

Anyway, keep up the good work.

Cheers, Alex



Am 12.08.2013 um 19:42 schrieb Mark Proctor <mproctor at codehaus.org>:

> 
> On 12 Aug 2013, at 18:28, Alexander Herwix <alex at herwix.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hey guys, 
>> 
>> I really love the new wb-apps, but documentation is really pretty sparse right now, so maybe you guys can help me out :)
>> 
>> Is there any documentation on the authoring REST-Api? I have already asked on the jbpm forum, where they said that there should be one but that it's not documented yet. I have found some repository, group stuff exposed (drools-wb-rest), process-execution (jbpm) but no real asset authoring.
> 
>> 
>> The reason I need this access, is to use the kie-wb in parallel to my own gui with the kie-wb as admin interface. I know there have been improvements with user-extendable editors via uberfire and GWT but with the level of documentation as it is right now, I can't make that dive now. But with my data already in the wb it should be trivial to port my user-facing gui in the future if the need should arise. 
> We will not being doing any rest CRUD apis; although there are other rest api's for administration stuff. As this is just git a variety of git apis exist for every platform already. We have however done a java nio2 back port (api copy, with namespace change), vfs that works with GIT remotely. But it is obviously java only.
> 
> This should probably suffice any needs you have, for accessing and integrating with content.
>> 
>> What do you guys think? Is this possible with the upcoming droolsjbpm 6 release? Could anyone provide at least rudimentary documentation of (all) the REST APIs?  It would really help if there would be at least a unified feature list of what to expect in open APIs of the kie-wb (so for jbpm as well as drools).
> We don't ned to provide docs for how GIT works, but we will provide docs on the rest apis we do support - just nothing yet. Still working over time on fixing critical bugs.
>> 
>> Thanks for any help on advance!
>> 
>> Cheers, Alex
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