ralt / restful

REST APIs made easy

restful

JSON REST APIs made easy.

In other words, spin up a fully standards-compliant¹ JSON API over HTTP in Common Lisp by providing a simple class.

Not yet available on quicklisp.

Documentation available here.

An example of an implementation is available here.

¹ Closely follows RFC 7230, RFC 7231 and RFC 5789.

Dependencies

This library uses (and exposes its usage) the following dependencies:

• hunchentoot: defines a new acceptor to be used with hunchentoot. restful also assumes that hunchentoot is used to handle requests/responses.
• jonathan: parse/render JSON thanks to this library. A selling point of this library is that an object can define a method to handle its rendering.

The following dependencies are used internally:

• alexandria for the hash table facilities.
• cl-ppcre for the regexes.
• closer-mop to define and handle new slot options.

Roadmap

• Add HATEOAS support through the Link response header
• Define a mongodb/postgresql storage
• Add POST handling on collections (create resources, custom actions)