Re: Regular Web of Things call on scripting API

Yes, I started a project to use iot-rest-api-server with iotivity and node-iotivity to build a WoT servient based on Iotivity.

The idea is to use OCF as the REST API and use Thing Description as a hypermedia controls framework.  

https://github.com/connectIOT/iotivity-servient/blob/master/docs/st-servient.pdf <https://github.com/connectIOT/iotivity-servient/blob/master/docs/st-servient.pdf>

I was hoping to motivate some enhancements to TD like collections and other hypermedia design patterns.

Not much progress as I got involved with other things, but it seems like a sound concept.

Best regards,

Michael


> On Nov 7, 2016, at 9:12 PM, Kis, Zoltan <zoltan.kis@intel.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Benjamin Francis <bfrancis@mozilla.com <mailto:bfrancis@mozilla.com>> wrote:
> Do you imagine this API being implemented on the client side (e.g. as a DOM API in a browser engine) or on the server side (e.g. as a Node module)? If it's the former, has any browser vendor expressed an interest in implementing this?
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> The ExposedThing interface is on server (sensors, actuators) side, in order to facilitate writing support for new Things. We do have an implementation to a very similar API (OCF) in a constrained JS runtime (based on JerryScript) that runs even in MCU's. 
> https://github.com/01org/zephyr.js/ <https://github.com/01org/zephyr.js/>
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> If it's the latter, what is the benefit of standardising this scripting API? Calling a REST API is likely to work differently in different languages, of which JavaScript is just one.
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> The client side interface is a ConsumedThing, and could be in fact a library on top of REST. Anyone can replace it, i.e. no need to standardize, but it would be nice however.
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> Then, nobody prevents standardizing scripting for other languages. 
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> We agree that the mother of all is the REST API. 
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> Rather than specify the scripting API, have you considering specifying the REST API in terms of methods, requests and responses instead like the OCF does?
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> We do have a REST API server, and I could imagine WoT comes up with a similar (but higher level) solution.
> https://github.com/01org/iot-rest-api-server/ <https://github.com/01org/iot-rest-api-server/>  
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> The draft I created is deliberately based on REST model (and connected to OCF implementation, although not the same).
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> Note that the links above point to OCF implementations, not WoT implementations. Nevertheless, we do plan to support WoT scripting, once there are concrete use cases and a scripting API draft that addresses those use cases. 
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> We have discussed these in today's Scripting API meeting.
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> Best regards,
> Zoltan
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