[Registry-dev] APP

[Paul Fremantle]

It is essential that we have a *perfect* implementation of APP here and 
that it is clearly documented and /matches the documentation/!

We have deliberately avoided the UDDI crowd here... so we can't afford 
to annoy the REST community by bodging APP :)

Paul

Glen Daniels wrote:
> Hi Deepal, all:
> 
> Deepal Jayasinghe wrote:
>>> Are we not using Abdera on the client side? 
>> We do.
> 
> Yep - and upon further research into the code it looks like we haven't 
> paid much attention to the protocol design we did earlier:
> 
> http://wso2.org/wiki/display/registry/Registry+Protocol
> 
> Not only do we have the non-APP-ish use of POST to non-existent URLs (in 
> order to create them), but for instance to tag, we seem to do a PUT of 
> an Atom entry representing the tag to the resource URL - shouldn't that 
> be a POST to "...resource;tags"?
> 
>>> (Looks like we are given the user agent header.) So doesn't Abdera do
>>> the right thing for this??
> 
> Abdera is apparently a little (too?) flexible about this kind of stuff.
> 
>>> Also, I noticed that in the code below we connect to the registry at
>>> one URL but the base URL for the Atom stuff has "/atom" added to the
>>> reg URL passed in. Is that right? Should we not say the base URL is
>>> .../wso2registry/atom instead?
>> We can do that . But I intentionally implement the code to give the URL
>> of the registry not the URL of the ATOM. Because user does not want to
>> know whether we use APP or not , he just need a remote API to talk to a
>> registry.  So I personally do not like to provide /atom when we give the
>> url.
> 
> +1 to not providing /atom when we give the URL.  But -1 to tacking it on 
> in the first place.  There is no need for the registry API to make any 
> assumptions about the URL except that it's rooted wherever we're told. 
> In other words - shouldn't I be able to say:
> 
> Registry R1 = new RemoteRegistry("http://myhost/regRoot");
> Registry R2 = new RemoteRegistry("http://myhost/regRoot/subDir");
> 
> ...and have both R1 and R2 work?  Isn't this how we're expecting to use 
> this for things like Synapse/Axis2 repositories?
> 
> new RemoteRegistry("http://registrySite/registry/finance/axis2repo");
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> --Glen
> 
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