Re: Regular Web of Things call on scripting API

Hi,

I have been talking with Zoltan about the WoT scripting API so I know a little bit about it but not much.

However, I like the REST API model. The implementation behind the REST can be anything, Java, JavaScript, C++, etc. WoT should focus on creating a rich REST APIs for the things.

Sakari

On 11/1/16, 1:49 PM, "Benjamin Francis" <bfrancis@mozilla.com<mailto:bfrancis@mozilla.com>> wrote:

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<mailto:johannes.hund@siemens.com>> wrote:
Dear group,

We just had another call on the scripting API track.

See minutes: http://www.w3.org/2016/10/31-wot-minutes.html

Thanks to Yingying for scribing.

These calls will be done regularly, we plan for weekly calls at first.
As reference, we used 13:00 CET, which leads to some daylight savings trouble.

Next call time on and after Monday, November 7, 2016


- 4am US Pacific

- 7am US Eastern

- Noon UK

- 1pm Central Europe

- 8pm China

- 9pm Korea/Japan



Meeting link: https://mit.webex.com/mit/j.php?MTID=m2a1901e571dec21225ed85d7d5b3585f


Irc used is #wot on irc.w3.org<http://irc.w3.org>

We mainly focus these calls on technical work, and as sync points for the discussion on Github: https://github.com/w3c/wot/labels/Scripting


Issues, proposals and other agenda points to be discussed are collected on the beginning of the call (agenda-bashing).

Please feel greatly invited to join if you are interested in contributing to or implementing scripting topics for the Web of Things.

Best regards,
Johannes