restlet
v0.4.1
Published
RESTful web API framework for JavaScript
Readme
Restlet Framework
RESTful web API framework for JavaScript 
Do you want to blend your web services, web sites and web clients into unified web applications exposing and consuming RESTful web APIs? Leverage the open source Restlet Framework and its unique JavaScript API available in two consistent editions: Node.js and Browser/AJAX!
NOTE: this is a port in progress of the Restlet Framework for Java.
http://restlet.org
Installing
For Node, use NPM with the following command:
npm install restletFor browsers, use Bower with the following command:
bower install restletor get the JavaScript files from folder browser/dist from Github.
Getting started
Within Node applications
Restlet JS follows the same concepts than the Java version. It leverages the following elements:
- Component that integrates the whole engine (server and application)
- Server that makes available the Restlet applications for a specific protocol
- Application that corresponds to the Restlet application itself and allows to define processing elements for requests
- Router that defines how can server resources will be accessed
- Server resource corresponds to the element to process request
Following code describes how to implement a simple Restlet application using JavaScript and Node:
var restlet = require('restlet');
var component = restlet.createComponent();
// Add a new HTTP server listening on port 3000.
component.addServer('http', 3000);
// Create the sample application.
var application = restlet.createApplication(function() {
// Create the application router
var router = restlet.createRouter();
// Attach a list element server resource
router.attach('/contacts/',
restlet.createServerResource().get(function(request, response) {
var contacts = [
{
id: '1',
lastName: 'Fielding',
firstName: 'Roy'
}
];
response.writeObject(contacts);
response.end();
})
.post({ convertInputEntity: true,
parameters: [ 'entity', 'response'] }, function(contact, response) {
// add contact
(...)
response.status('201');
response.end();
});
);
return router;
});
// Attach the sample application.
component.getDefaultHost().attachDefault(application);
// Start the component.
component.start();Restlet JS also provides a client support to call REST resources:
var restlet = require('restlet');
restlet.createClientResource('http://myurl')
.get({
accept: 'application/json'
parameters: [ 'entity' ],
convertOutputEntity: true },
function(entity) {
(...)
});Within browsers
Restlet JS also provides a client support to call REST resources with browsers:
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-2.1.4.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="lodash.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="moment-2.10.3.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="restlet.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#test').click(function() {
restlet.createClientResource('http://localhost:8080/data.json').get({
accept: 'application/json',
parameters: [ 'entity' ],
convertInputEntity: true
}, function(entity) {
console.log('>> entity = ' + JSON.stringify(entity));
});
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<span id="test">Run Restlet client</span>
</body>
</html>Documentation
| Version | Status | Documentation | | ------- | -------| --------------| | 0.4.1 | In progress | Server API Reference | | 0.4.1 | In progress | Client API Reference |
Support
If you have questions about the framework and the way to use it, you can ask a question
on the StackOverflow website using tags restlet and javascript
or restlet.js.
Contribute
If you want to contribute to the framework, please have a look at this page: Contributing Restlet JS
Copyright
Copyright 2015 Restlet, Inc.