Changes between Version 30 and Version 31 of RESTController

Timestamp:

04/06/10 23:09:25 (15 years ago)

Author:

Dominic König

Comment:

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RESTController

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 Available since: [https://code.launchpad.net/~flavour/sahana/sahanapy-trunk Main Trunk] Revision 358+
 
-See also: [wiki:S3REST S3REST], [wiki:S3XRC S3XRC]
+'''S3REST''' provides a generic '''RESTful API''' ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer Representational State Transfer]) for !SahanaPy database resources, which maps HTTP requests to data resources and function calls. In particular, it maps resource addresses (=URL's) and HTTP methods (GET, PUT, DELETE) to CRUD actions, and invokes so called ''method handlers'' to execute them.
 
-The "REST Controller" is a S3 framework component that provides a generic RESTful ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer Representational State Transfer]) API for !SahanaPy database resources.
+The so called '''REST Controller''' (function shn_rest_controller() in models/01_crud.py) is wrapper function for S3REST, providing generic CRUD method handlers.
 
-The main function of the REST Controller is:
-
-    * '''shn_rest_controller''' (defined in models/01_RESTlike_controller.py)
-
-The controller supports a number of representation formats:
+The method handlers support a number of representation formats:
 
     * HTML (including autogenerated Create/Update forms)
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     * [wiki:S3XRC JSON] as light-weight alternative for AJAX-style resource access
 
+See also: [wiki:S3REST S3REST], [wiki:S3XRC S3XRC]
 == Resources ==