A BarCamp Brighton presentation by Gareth Rushgrove on RESTful architectures and the Nabaztag

1. RESTful Rabbits

2. The North
tm

3. Representational State Transfer (REST) is a style of
software architecture for distributed hypermedia
systems such as the World Wide Web
http://roy.gbiv.com/pubs/dissertation/top.htm
REST

4. GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, TRACE,
OPTIONS, CONNECT, HEAD
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616
HTTP Verbs

5. Resource Orientated Design

6. Nouns are resources you act upon
Verbs are what you do to those resources
Generally this means GET, POST, PUT and DELETE
Nouns and Verbs

7. No matter what web server you have, and no matter
what web client I have, I know if I see a URL of your,
that I can retrieve the associated document using
HTTP GET, with no advance co-ordination needed
other than agreement on the relevant specs
http://rest.blueoxen.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?AnotherRestDescription
Cool Stuff

8. Flickr Bashing

9. Flickr API

10. GET /photos/garethr
GET /people/garethr/contacts
PUT /photos/garethr
PUT /people/garethr/contacts/
PUT /people
GET /photos/garethr/tags
Flickr RESTful API?

11. 201 Created
2xx Success

12. 3xx Redirection

13. 400 Bad Request
401 Unathorized
403 Forbidden
404 Not Found
410 Gone
412 Precondition Failed
4xx Client Error

14. 501 Not Implemented
503 Service Temporarily
Unavailable
5xx Server Error

15. Rabbits?

16. Rabbits!

17. posright Position of the right ear between 0 and 16
posleft Position of the left ear between 0 and 16
ears=ok Send the position of the ears
http://api.nabaztag.com/vl/FR/api.jsp
Nabaztag API

18. GET /ears/left
GET /ears/right
PUT /ears/left
PUT /ears/right
POST /mouth
GET /name
Nabaztag RESTful API

19. A Rabbit called Cambridge

20. Microformats and REST sitting in a tree

21. +
Microformats for Write APIs

22. Read Books

23. http://flickr.com/photos/lkfdesign/365335459/
http://flickr.com/photos/sjaek/275710273/
http://flickr.com/photos/lost-moments/444960411/
http://flickr.com/photos/listercat/1347862097/
http://flickr.com/photos/misspepo/1338884925/
http://www.sourcebottle.net/
Thanks To...

24. Any Questions?