Description
Creating RESTful Web Services with restish
Presented by Grig Gheorghiu
Roy Fielding described REST in his Ph.D. dissertation in the year 2000. Almost ten years later, Web developers are still confused as to how to apply the REST principles in their applications. Examples of poorly designed 'REST' APIs abound, and I will make use of them in my talk.
In this presentation, I will give an overview of REST and its design principles, and I will show a concrete example of a RESTful Web service implemented in the restish framework. My examples will include CRUD operations, as well as transactions. I will also show how to consume this Web service using both httplib2 and curl. I would be remiss if I didn't describe ways to test the Web service with WebTest and twill.