Format: WADL

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Format: WADL

buildscientist opened this issue 11 years ago · comments

Although not all RESTful web services generate WADL files it would be nice to have a feature developed to generate client libs based on this document format.

A number of REST frameworks like Jersey support generation of WADL files.

Pavan Kumar Sunkara · Answer 1 · Tue Jan 07 2014 00:10:42 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I think writing a converter from WADL to this format would be better.

You might ask, Why I am sticking with this format? It's because this format is easier to write in for users with as few requirements as possible which are the ones I needed to generate client libraries.

Youssuf ElKalay · Answer 2 · Tue Jan 07 2014 00:15:28 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

A converter is nice but I was thinking more along the lines of pre-existing RESTful web services. I can see a use case for developers that want to generate client libraries and not want to convert to a new format. Additionally WADL is automatically generated (at least when using a framework like Jersey it is).

Would the converter be an option added to alpaca or better suited as a separate tool?

Pavan Kumar Sunkara · Answer 3 · Tue Jan 07 2014 00:16:27 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

More like an option so that people wont have a problem with converting.

Youssuf ElKalay · Answer 4 · Tue Jan 07 2014 00:18:08 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Sounds good. I'll see if I can carve out some time to add this feature in. I don't know Go but I'm sure it has a decent XML DOM parser. If you have any recommendations let me know.

Pavan Kumar Sunkara · Answer 5 · Tue Jan 07 2014 00:18:58 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Definitely. I would appreciate your help. :)

Dobrosław Żybort · Answer 6 · Tue Mar 10 2015 18:12:55 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

One simple Go code generator from WADL documents: https://github.com/katco-/wadl2go
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