Re: Regular Web of Things call on scripting API

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> Ben from Mozilla is still wondering whether we should standardize
> scripting API.


To explain, I think the use cases of both the "Scripting API" and the "WoT
Interface" could be fulfilled by a single WoT REST API.

For example, rather than a function call like:

WoT.createThingFromDescription({"name": "My Temperature Sensor", ...});

Registering a new Thing should be an HTTP POST request with a Thing
Description in the body, e.g.:

POST http://mythingserver.com/things
{
  "name: "My Temperature Sensor",
  ...
}

There's nothing to stop someone from creating a helper library to call that
REST API from a particular programming language, but I see no need to
standardise a language-agnostic scripting API for this purpose. In fact
doing so could be problematic (not all languages natively support the
concept of Promises you're using for example).

As I understand it this is how Google Weave and EVRYTHNG APIs work, and
it's how other platforms work too (sometimes with a REST API being called
behind a provided language-specific software library). It's also how I
would expect Mozilla's implementation to work.

Ben

On 31 October 2016 at 13:18, Hund, Johannes <johannes.hund@siemens.com>
wrote:

> Dear group,
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> We just had another call on the scripting API track.
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> See minutes: http://www.w3.org/2016/10/31-wot-minutes.html
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> Thanks to Yingying for scribing.
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> These calls will be done regularly, we plan for weekly calls at first.
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> We mainly focus these calls on technical work, and as sync points for the
> discussion on Github: https://github.com/w3c/wot/labels/Scripting
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> Issues, proposals and other agenda points to be discussed are collected on
> the beginning of the call (agenda-bashing).
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> Please feel greatly invited to join if you are interested in contributing
> to or implementing scripting topics for the Web of Things.
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> Best regards,
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> Johannes
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