[wsf-c-dev] [wsf-php] How to handle a rest get with a php service

[Nabeel Yoosuf]

Under default settings, PHP engine gets invoked through web server (httpd)
based on the file extension in the request url. I think, we need to find out
the answer to the following question in order to support
service/method?arguments

How does the web server know that it should pass the request to PHP engine
(and then to wsf/php extension) based on the REST request url?

Nabeel.

On 3/3/07, Sanjiva Weerawarana <sanjiva at wso2.com> wrote:
>
> I think its critical to support service/method?arguments. Otherwise the
> API is not RESTful because the URI base is not identifying the actual
> operation to execute.
>
> Nandika, can you explain why its a problem to support this in PHP? If the
> PHP file is the service then all that's needed is for that php file to do
> the next step dispatching itself AFAICT.
>
> Sanjiva.
>
> Nabeel Yoosuf wrote:
> > I am not an expert in REST, but I want to point out an example. Using
> > Yahoo API, we can make a REST search for the word "permission" as
> > follows (Reference [1]).
> >
> >
> http://api.search.yahoo.com/WebSearchService/V1/webSearch?appid=YahooDemo&query=persimmon&results=10
> > <
> http://api.search.yahoo.com/WebSearchService/V1/webSearch?appid=YahooDemo&query=persimmon&results=10
> >
> >
> > (their convension is serviceName/version/methodname?arguments)
> >
> > I think Yahoo API's are based on PHP. We may be able to support the same
> > convention in Axis2 (similar to what Yahoo uses):
> > serviceName/methodName?arguments.
> >
> > Nabeel.
> > [1] http://developer.yahoo.com/php/
> >
> >
> > On 3/2/07, *Eran Chinthaka* < chinthaka at wso2.com
> > <mailto:chinthaka at wso2.com>> wrote:
> >
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> >     Hi Nandika,
> >
> >     Operation name being a part of the path name is Axis2/Java
> convention
> >     only. There is no requirement for you to follow the same thing. I
> think
> >     the best option is to append the operationName also in to the query
> >     part, but it should be automatic. Meaning, user should not be
> worried
> >     about appending that part.
> >     And in the server side you can rip it accordingly.
> >
> >     - -- Chinthaka
> >
> >     nandika wrote:
> >      > Hi all,
> >      >
> >      > Currently Axis2c handles rest style invocations with GET as
> follows.
> >      >
> >      > The request URL for the REST GET would be as
> >      > " http://host:port/axis2/services/service_name/operation name ?
> >     arguments"
> >      >
> >      > But in case of  a php service , the .php file will be the service
> and
> >      > after that we will have the "?"
> >      > So we need to come up with a convention on how to pass the
> operation
> >      > name along with parameters after "?".
> >      >
> >      > Any Ideas will be greatly appreciated.
> >      >
> >      > --Nandika
> >      >
> >      >
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