http://simonwillison.net/2009-04-30T19:55:15+00:00Simon Willison2009-04-30T19:55:15+00:002009-04-30T19:55:15+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Apr/30/jespern/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://bitbucket.org/jespern/django-piston/wiki/Home">django-piston</a></strong></p> Promising looking Django mini-framework for creating RESTful APIs, from the bitbucket team. Ticks all of Jacob’s boxes, even including built-in pluggable authentication support with HTTP Basic, Digest and OAuth out of the box. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/apis">apis</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/authentication">authentication</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/bitbucket">bitbucket</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/digest">digest</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/django">django</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/jespernoehr">jespernoehr</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/oauth">oauth</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/piston">piston</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/rest">rest</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/restful">restful</a></p>

2008-09-21T20:47:16+00:002008-09-21T20:47:16+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Sep/21/restview/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1071/">RestView - a class for creating a view that dispatches based on request.method</a></strong></p> I finally got around to writing up a simple approach I’ve been using for REST-style view functions in Django that dispatch based on request.method. <p><small></small>Via <a href="http://jhcore.com/2008/09/20/getting-restful-with-webpy/">Getting RESTful with web.py</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/django">django</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/django-snippets">django-snippets</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/rest">rest</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/restful">restful</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/restview">restview</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/views">views</a></p>

2008-08-15T08:07:06+00:002008-08-15T08:07:06+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Aug/15/damien/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="http://damienkatz.net/2008/08/rest-i-just-dont-get-it.html"><p>If it's easy to make all your calls conform to the RESTful verb architecture, then that's good, I guess. But if not, then just use a POST as an RPC call, keep it as simple as possible and be done with it. And don't spend another minute worrying about being RESTful or not.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="http://damienkatz.net/2008/08/rest-i-just-dont-get-it.html">Damien Katz</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/damien-katz">damien-katz</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/http">http</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/post">post</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/rest">rest</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/restful">restful</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/rpc">rpc</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/web-services">web-services</a></p>

2008-05-13T08:09:29+00:002008-05-13T08:09:29+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/May/13/persevere/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://cometdaily.com/2008/05/12/persevere-adds-comet-support/">Persevere adds Comet Support</a></strong></p> Persevere sounds neat: a RESTful HTTP/JSON data store (the interface reminds me of CouchDB) which recently gained the ability to “subscribe” to a resource and receive notifications of updates via comet. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/comet">comet</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/couchdb">couchdb</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript">javascript</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/json">json</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/persevere">persevere</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/rest">rest</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/restful">restful</a></p>