[mapguide-internals] MapGuide RESTful Web Service

[Robert Bray]

Harris,

This is totally cool. I can't wait to experiment with it. You say below 
it is built as an ISAPI extension, would it be possible at some point to 
also package it as an Apache Mod?

Bob

Haris Kurtagic wrote:
> Yes, you are right. I have designed couple of those URI (very simillar
> to one you described) and I am playing with adding new Maps, Layers.
> 
> Haris
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jason
> Birch
> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 7:25 PM
> To: MapGuide Internals Mail List
> Subject: RE: [mapguide-internals] MapGuide RESTful Web Service
> 
> 
> It strikes me that REST would be a great addition to repository (not
> just session) management too.  All of the resources are accessible by
> pseudo-URL already (Library://).  I'm not sure how you would deal with
> things like resource data / config documents though...
> 
> Imagine going to http://localhost/rest/library and getting:
> 
> <ul>
> <li><a href="TestData" class="Folder">TestData</a></li>
> <li><a href="Nanaimo" class="Folder">Nanaimo</a></li>
> <li><a href="Samples" class="Folder">Samples</a></li>
> <li><a href="RasterTest.FeatureSource"
> class="FeatureSource">RasterTest</a></li>
> <li><a href="RasterTest.LayerDefinition"
> class="LayerDefinition">RasterTest</a></li>
> </ul>
> 
> Or going to http://localhost/rest/library.js and getting
> 
> { features: [
>    { "type": "Folder", name="TestData",
> uri="http://localhost/rest/library/TestData" },
>    { "type": "Folder", name="Nanaimo",
> uri="http://localhost/rest/library/Nanaimo" },
>    { "type": "Folder", name="Samples",
> uri="http://localhost/rest/library/Samples" },
>    { "type": "FeatureSource", name="RasterTest",
> uri="http://localhost/rest/library/RasterTest.FeatureSource" },  
>    { "type": "LayerDefinition", name="RasterTest",
> uri="http://localhost/rest/library/RasterTest.LayerDefinition" }
>   ]
> }
> 
> Or going to http://localhost/rest/library.xml and getting the default
> EnumerateResources output.
> 
> The beauty of this is that not only could the directory listings be
> returned in multiple representations, but so could the actual resources.
> The JSON work with the MapAgent is defining some standard XML-to-JSON
> mapping that could be used for JSON representations of the XML
> resources.  I don't think it's worth reformatting the output to be more
> JSON-like, as the effort required to manage two semantically different
> representations would be excessive.
> 
> Jason
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Haris Kurtagic
> Subject: [mapguide-internals] MapGuide RESTful Web Service
> 
> My colleague Simon Pelicon and I are working on adding a Web Service
> functionality to Map Guide Open Source.
> 
> We are trying to implement it as RESTful Web Service.
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