Re: [ecf-dev] rest API work

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Andre,

Andre Dietisheim wrote:
> <stuff deleted>
> > I agree that there should be some way of specifying that a
> > RequestEntity is to be used for post requests, but I'm not clear on
> > the 'best' or 'clearest' way to represent it in the API.  Any
> > thoughts/comments would be appreciated...and we will get it back in
> > there.
> >     
>
> My initial thought is that RestCallFactory and RestCall shall be
> extended. I started looking through the HttpClient and I'm currently not
> that sure if we really need to provide an additional parameter for
> entities. The first few snippets I found seemed to bridge from
> HttpMethod-parameters to HttpMethod-entites/body. I'll investigate on
> this as soon as my component's up and running.
>   

I've created this bug for design discussion and patches/suggestions for 
dealing with this

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=297239

We can have detailed discussions on this bug.  I intend to address this 
in fairly short order (i.e. before the end of this month), but would 
like to solicit ideas of what would be simplest/easiest to address this 
(i.e. allowing post/put to have binary/serialized parameters).    
Andre...one thing that would help me with testing of whatever we come up 
with would be if there is some existing rest-based service that you know 
about that takes one or more parameters for post or put (hopefully both). 

Thanks.

Scott