[rt-users] New UX for RT: REST 2.0, json, and what?

[BÁLINT Bekény]

Hi All,

We try to use the RTx-REST v2 plugin. We modified the source of RT 4.2 with
the following:
https://github.com/bestpractical/rt/compare/4.2;support-rest-v2
then installed the plugin and tried to use the REST interface with curl,
but we got "internal server error" message.
In the error log we have:

[error] [client 1.2.3.4] You must pass in a resource for this Web::Machine
at /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/Web/Machine.pm line
29.\n\tWeb::Machine::new('Web::Machine', 'resource',
'RTx::REST::Resource::Queue') called at
/opt/rt4/local/plugins/RTx-REST/lib/RTx/REST.pm line
176\n\tRTx::REST::resource('Queue') called at
/opt/rt4/local/plugins/RTx-REST/lib/RTx/REST.pm
...

then

[error] [client 1.2.3.4] Attempt to reload RTx/REST/Resource/Queue.pm
aborted.\nCompilation failed in require at
/usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/Module/Runtime.pm line 317.\n

Could you give us a short hint how to get through this problem?

Thanks,
Bekeny


On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 9:16 AM, <akos.torok at docca.hu> wrote:

> Hello Alex,
> Thank you for all the infos. So:
> - we would join improving REST 2.0 (rtx-rest),
> - we would develope an angularjs (or backbone.js) client.
>
> I hope our work would be useful for all the RT community.
>
>
>
> Hello Community,
> If anyone has angularJS or backbone.js competency and could join us (any
> way), just let us know please.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ákos
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 8:33 PM, Alex Vandiver <alexmv at bestpractical.com>wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2014-03-06 at 17:21 +0100, akos.torok at docca.hu wrote:
>> > This is some kind of request for comment. Please, feel free to give us
>> > advice, support, ideas. If you have similar effort, if you know any
>> > solution that makes this problems causeless, let us know please!
>>
>> Best Practical is always interested in contributions from the community
>> which improve the product.  As it happens, our focus for RT 4.4 is
>> planned to include a concentration on the UI, as well as a rewrite of
>> the REST API.
>>
>> For RT 4.2, we held to our previous restrictions that the entirety of
>> the UI needed to be accessible to users without JS enabled.  With
>> JS-based UIs sufficiently prevalent now, it is our intent with RT 4.4
>> that JS will be a required part of the UI.
>>
>> That being said, we do not intend to write the entirety of the UI in JS,
>> as a thin wrapper around back-end APIs.  Such a rewrite would be
>> extremely time-intensive, and unlikely to be able to duplicate all of
>> the features of the current server-side templating solution.
>>
>> However, we're quite interested in improving the REST API.  The 1.0 REST
>> API was written well before the advent of JSON, and indeed before the
>> concept of "REST APIs" had begun to be commonplace -- as such, it has a
>> number of very odd design decisions that hinder extensibility.  Because
>> of this, we are uninterested in expanding on it, but are more focused on
>> providing a new implementation which is based on modern assumptions of
>> how REST APIs should function.
>>
>> We currently have an initial sketch of a REST 2.0 already partially
>> completed, with the aim to release it as an extension for RT 4.2, in
>> core in RT 4.4, and remove REST 1.0 thereafter.  It is now published at
>> https://github.com/bestpractical/rtx-rest -- it also requires the RT
>> branch https://github.com/bestpractical/rt/tree/4.2/support-rest-v2
>>
>> Bear in mind that this is highly experimental; we do _not_ suggest its
>> use apart from developers working on it.  It is in no way
>> production-ready.  As we are aware it is lacking in features, pull
>> requests or patches welcome; simple bug reports are not helpful at this
>> juncture.
>>
>>  - Alex
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> RT Training London, March 19-20 and Dallas May 20-21
>> http://bestpractical.com/training
>>
>
>
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