Re: the necessity of describing responses in-band

On 10/7/15 1:34 PM, Karol Szczepański wrote:
> Hi Kingsley
>
> I did create to one of the projects we had a prototype of a Hydra
> driven AngularJS client that built dynamically views from server side
> provided information.
>
> It was based on the API documentation part of Hydra rather than on
> on-the-fly discovered hypermedia controls. Unfortunately, Hydra is not
> there yet to fully support this approach and we had to use few
> "extensions". I'm going to shed some more light on this in a separate
> post as it touches a private project of mine that actually struggles
> from similar issues.
>
> Regards
>
> Karol

Karol,

I am very interested in this area too. I would be interested in looking
at what you have.


Kingsley
>
> -----Oryginalna wiadomość----- From: Kingsley Idehen
> Sent: Wednesday, October 7, 2015 7:20 PM
> To: public-hydra@w3.org
> Subject: Re: the necessity of describing responses in-band
>
> On 10/6/15 8:17 AM, Ruben Verborgh wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I've written a blog post that describes the necessity
>> of describing responses in-band:
>>     http://ruben.verborgh.org/blog/2015/10/06/turtles-all-the-way-down/
>>
>> More than an argument for REST/hypermedia,
>> it's an explanation of _how_ we should realize that
>> with RDF-enabled representations.
>>
>> In this context, the Hydra Core Vocabulary is a major enabler,
>> because it lets us describe hypermedia controls in RDF.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Ruben
>
> Yes.
>
> Has anyone built an JS based client that leverages Hydra as a mechanism
> for building dynamic API exerciser consoles.
>
> [1] http://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer  -- a nice example of
> the kind of client could be produced for any API described using terms
> from Hydra
> [2] http://petstore.swagger.io -- most APIs are described using Swagger
> these days, so Hydra-ting those will have dual benefits.
>
>


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