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REST revisited (JAX-RS and JAXB)

tstephen — Fri, 03 May 2013 09:07:02 GMT

I realise that last year the feeling was that there were more important things to work on that a revised REST implementation but I wondered if now might be a good time to revisit that?First a bit about motivations. I think there would be benefits in terms of more seamlessly and automatically generat

Re: REST revisited (JAX-RS and JAXB)

trademak — Fri, 03 May 2013 14:15:53 GMT

Hi Tim,

We are working on a full REST API that mirrors the Java API for the 5.13 release.
This means that we are implementing the REST API in a similar way like you describe here, but it's implemented as a layer on top of the Java API. Because our response objects like Task, and Execution are basically wrappers around TaskEntity and ExecutionEntity it's good to have this additional layer to prevent attributes leaking in the REST response.

Because our time frame for the 5.13 is pretty short, we decided to implement the REST layer with Restlet, just like we did in the previous REST implementation. Then after 5.13, we have time to decide on which implementation is best for the future and we would very much welcome your input there. But at least we will have a full REST API available in the 5.13 release and the implementation is of secondary importance I guess.

Best regards,

Re: REST revisited (JAX-RS and JAXB)

tstephen — Fri, 03 May 2013 17:07:28 GMT

Thanks for the reply Tijs.

Is this the API you refer to?: https://github.com/activiti/Activiti/tree/master/modules/activiti-rest/src/main/java/org/activiti/rest/api

Where can I see the plan for 5.13 (the roadmap page still refers to 5.11 as the current release)?

Cheers,
Tim

Re: REST revisited (JAX-RS and JAXB)

trademak — Tue, 14 May 2013 12:24:56 GMT

Hi Tim,

Yes, that's the correct location. The plan for 5.13 is available here:

https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/wiki/Activiti-roadmap

Best regards,

Re: REST revisited (JAX-RS and JAXB)

tstephen — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:05:04 GMT

Is there a target date for the 5.13 release?

Re: REST revisited (JAX-RS and JAXB)

jbarrez — Wed, 22 May 2013 09:37:39 GMT

@Tim: first week of June if all goes well. Might be a bit later this time, cause we want to squeeze in some new stuff.