ERRest Boot Camp

• What is REST
  • Consistent URLs
  • Stateless
  • Using HTTP protocol to full extend (methods, cache, status codes, headers, redirections)
  • Multiple representations of same object, but only one URL for object
  • HATEOAS mention
• Basic ERRest concepts
  • routes
  • controllers
  • delegates
  • key filters
• Using an existing model and explaining how it works
  • BlogEntry
    • title
    • content
    • dateInserted
    • dateModified
    • author
  • BlogAuthor
    • firstName
    • lastName
    • password
    • email
    • entries
• Basic REST routes (JSON)
  • adding a migration to create the admin user
  • adding a BlogAuthor user
  • adding a BlogEntry
  • getting a BlogEntry
  • modifying a BlogEntry
  • deleting a blogEntry
  • viewing a author and its posts (in XML)
• HTML REST routes
  • explain how URL are differents
  • automatic HTML routing vs manual
  • listing blog posts
  • listing authors
  • batching and sorting
• Better names: entity and attribute alias
• Having a fake primary key in a REST context (moving from ID to unique title)
• Handling status codes
  • 200&201
  • 404&410
    • Returning 410 for entries that were deleted
  • 405
  • 50x
  • 401&403
    • when trying to create blog entry without logged user
• Redirections
  • How to do them, codes 301 and 302 differences
• Adding headers to response
• Adding caching to the blog
• Adding non-EO support
• Adding keys for non-model attributes ("fullName")
• Date formats
  • er.rest.dateFormat
  • er.rest.timestampFormat
  • er.rest.rfcDateFormat
• JSON Schema

RestContext
Properties
Adding new format
Security
strictMode
Workflow