Re: Service description value for hypermedia?

Marc,

On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 02:24:12PM -0400, Marc Hadley wrote:
> E.g. I could write myself an Atom feed class along the lines of (I  
> haven't committed the Atom format to memory so the cardinality and  
> names of properties might be way off base here):
> 
> public class AtomFeed {
> 
>   public AtomFeed(URI feedURI) {
>     ...
>   }
> 
>   public Map<URI,String> getCollections() {
>     ...
>   }
> 
>   public URI addEntry(URI collection, AtomEntry entry) {
>     ...
>   }
> }
> 
> A description format could allow a code generator to spit out  
> something similar.

But the code that a human would write to support Atom as a library
(e.g. http://www.howdev.com/technologies/), would already provide an
API analogous to the one you describe there.

Mark.

Received on Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:40:59 UTC