Re: How a CLI could use the client environment executables files?

Philippe:

sounds like an interesting project.

first, the REST style focuses primarily on the network-level software
details; the implementation within the servers and clients is left open for
your own choices.

However, Chapter 1 of Fielding's dissertation does a good job of describing
the primary software model he had in mind esp. section 1.2[1]. I think
you'll find some guidance there and see that your idea of using internal
components on the client (i.e. diff, etc.) is well within the scope of an
implementation w/ REST characteristics.

Hope this helps.

[1]
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/software_arch.htm#sec_1_2

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On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Philippe Rathé <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I would like to code my own atompub client and server. I use atompub
> to expose different hierarchical collections of members.I would like
> the client being an interactive command line tool. Additionally to be
> used as a feed reader, a consumer of the CLI would probably use it
> for: bookmarking a collection; refreshing bookmarked collections;
> using diff tools to compare local files and then POSTing the output
> content to a collection; etc.
>
> The biggest challenge I face is how the CLI could use the client
> environment executables files restfully?
>
> I need to access the diff tools on the client-side system. Does it
> fail any constraints the fact that the CLI would try to access the
> diff executable tools under the hood? I would provide to the consumer
> the hypermedia controls necessary to fill in the arguments that will
> be passed to the executables. Just like HTML forms. What about
> code-on-demand instead? The client would executes, as an example,
> shell scripting fragment depending on the client environment setup
> capabilities. Just like the browser executes JavaScript? It has some
> advantages that the client could be partly able to update itself.
>
> Otherwise I would need to let the server do the diff which will be
> retrieve by the client. But the client and the server will most of the
> time be on the same machine or local network. The client needs to
> access the file system and do operations on files, which the local web
> server could do.
>
> Any advices? Thanks.
> -- Philippe
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