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gpilotino
gpilotino

Reputation: 13312

REST (json) web service discovery protocol

Is there any json-only standard to handle resource discovery (ie. collections of editable entries) ?

I mean some "protocol" to use in a self-describing REST service, eventually with hypermedia discovery (read, links and paging)

What about some Atom Publishing Protocol json equivalent ?

Upvotes: 10

Views: 5263

Answers (4)

Markus Lanthaler
Markus Lanthaler

Reputation: 3823

Perhaps you should have a look at Hydra (which works with JSON-LD). If you find it interesting, there's a Hydra W3C Community Group you may wanna join.

Here's the recording of a talk in which I describe both Hydra and JSON-LD: Building Next-Generation Web APIs with JSON-LD and Hydra

Disclaimer: I'm the creator of Hydra and the chair of the Hydra CG. I'm also one of the core designers of JSON-LD and a co-author and editor of its specifications.

Upvotes: 5

Andrej Eisfeld
Andrej Eisfeld

Reputation: 21

Maybe you could take a look at JSON-LD: http://json-ld.org/

Upvotes: 2

Venne
Venne

Reputation: 51

Maybe you can use something like this: http://restdesc.org/

Upvotes: 5

Donal Fellows
Donal Fellows

Reputation: 137717

A protocol? The whole point of REST is that you just ask a resource for a representation that happens to contain links to other resources. Pretty much any resource can tell you about other resources that happen to be relevant. There isn't a protocol specifically for discovery precisely because discovery is built into the whole architecture.

Some RESTful services publish service descriptions in a format like WADL, which could allow a client to predict the URIs for the some of the sorts of resources that the service provides. But that's not a substitute for actually getting links from other resources published by the service, as those links are concrete whereas WADL talks about URI templates.

Upvotes: -1

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