[racktables-users] Re: writing a restful API in php for Racktables
- From: Philip Durbin <philipdurbin@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: racktables-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:27:38 -0400
oh, I'm just some guy. and my name's not Patrick. :)
what you propose sounds reasonable, but I'll leave it to the racktables
devs to reply.
maybe there's a dev list
phil
On Jun 27, 2012 5:21 PM, "Ian Bettinger" <ibettinger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
>
> Thanks. I'm looking forward to taking a crack at it.
>
> Couple questions/confirmations:
>
> 1) I should work against trunk, right?
>
> 2) Do you guys have a preferred dispatch mechanism for API requests?
> For example, if I put in an Apache rewrite rule to route everything
> matching /api/v1 to an api.php script, what framework should I use to
> map URIs to methods within that script?
>
> Cheers,
> Ian
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 4:28 AM, Philip Durbin <philipdurbin@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Hi Ian,
> >
> > I don't have much to add, but I wanted to publicly thank you for working
> on
> > this! I'm talking it up on IRC!
> >
> > http://irclog.perlgeek.de/crimsonfu/2012-06-25#i_5756840
> >
> > Please let us know when you have some code to try!
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Phil
> >
> >
> > On 06/25/2012 12:33 PM, Ian Bettinger wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm an engineer at Topsy Labs (http://topsy.com/), and have been
> >> charged with creating a restful web service API for Racktables. This
> >> seems like a pretty popular request for the tool.
> >>
> >> Once it's in working order, we'd like to get it merged into the main
> >> branch of racktables so that we don't have to be the only folks
> >> maintaining it going forward.
> >>
> >> I'm planning on using the advice in this post to get started:
> >>
> >>
> //www.freelists.org/post/racktables-users/RESTful-API-for-RackTables,5
> >>
> >> A couple of questions:
> >>
> >> 1) has any official work started on this functionality?
> >> 2) is there anything more I need to know to get started?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance for any advice / info.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Ian Bettinger
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
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