[Mailman-Developers] Using REST Interface and WADL

[Barry Warsaw]

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On May 6, 2008, at 12:53 AM, mk2s at digitalcommute.com wrote:
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> I went to read up some more on WADL and ran into this:
> http://bitworking.org/news/193/Do-we-need-WADL

Thanks, I hadn't seen that before.

> I don't have any plans(yet) on auto generating the WADL, or did you  
> mean auto generating the documentation from the WADL file?  Are  
> there tools that do that?  I didn't find any such.
>
> Currently I'm returning human readable text containing something  
> like documentation when you request the xHTML representation.  I've  
> seen this done before and figured it was a pretty good idea.  It is  
> of no use of course if you want to auto generate a client, as you  
> would from a description file.
>
> Anyone else have any opinions or experiences with WADL?

I'm not aware of any tools to automatically build clients from a WADL  
description.  Personally, I'm rather skeptical it can be done, or at  
least done well.  I've had far too many experiences looking at  
horrible generated code to have much hope of it being a fruitful  
avenue.  I really only asked because I've talked to a few other folks  
about it w.r.t. different applications, so I was interested in getting  
your opinion on it.

Thanks,
- -Barry

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