[katello-devel] Foreman-api

[Bryan Kearney]

On 08/24/2012 10:52 AM, Jason Rist wrote:
> On 08/24/2012 10:50 AM, Dmitri Dolguikh wrote:
>> On 24/08/12 03:38 PM, Lukas Zapletal wrote:
>>> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:01:16AM +0100, Dmitri Dolguikh wrote:
>>>> Hey guys,
>>>>
>>>> I'm about to add api bindings for environments to Foreman API, but
>>>> was wondering about the goals of that [sub]-project. In particular,
>>>> why did we choose to create our own code instead of using Rails
>>>> ActiveResource (did anyone looked if there are still issues with
>>>> Oauth when using ActiveResource)? Another one is why do we perform
>>>> client side validation of parameters?
>>> The right question is maybe - why we started coding resource/pulp.rb and
>>> resource/candlepin.rb huge files with all the methods there? ;-)
>> They started small. It's pretty easy to break them up (we should) - each
>> file is a collection of classes corresponding to resources on
>> pulp/candlepin server. I'd like to see if we can switch to
>> ActiveResource though - perhaps it's viable now. Ohad - have you looked
>> at this lately?
>>
>> -d
>>>
>>> Any outcomes so far?
>>>
>>> LZ
>>>
>>
>>
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> OpenShift is primarily using ActiveResource.

If I recall, ActiveResource assumes a rather rails centric json view. It 
it works, rgeat. If not, you end up monkey patching alot.

-- bk