ReST

ReST

setup

Add rewrite rules

so a restful path /hsc/feeds/1234 (which doesn't really exist) sends you to the API which processes the request using the /feeds/12345 information from the path.

In /etc/apache2/sites-available/default add rules like <syntaxhighlight lang="html"> <Directory /var/www/hsc> RewriteEngine On RewriteRule feed/([0-9]+) /var/www/hsc/index.php?id=$1 RewriteRule feeds /var/www/hsc/index.php RewriteRule datastreams /var/www/hsc/index.php?id=$1 RewriteRule prog /var/www/hsc/index.php?id=$1 RewriteRule progs /var/www/hsc/index.php?id=$1 </Directory> remember to restart apache /usr/sbin/apache2ctl restart </syntaxhighlight> The API processing code resides in /hsc in this case.

when to GET PUT POST

GET when you want some data

PUT when you've got data to put in the API

POST when you want to setup something new

DELETE duh

In the case of home_system_control (hsc):

• GET request to /api/users – List all users
• GET request to /api/users/1 – List info for user with ID of 1
• POST request to /api/users – Create a new user
• PUT request to /api/users/1 – Update user with ID of 1
• DELETE request to /api/users/1 – Delete user with ID of 1

refs

cosm curl helper

http://api.cosm.com/v2/feeds/83080/datastreams/noise.csv?start=2013-01-11T19:30:00Z&end=2013-01-11T21:00:00Z&interval=0 doesn't work

http://cosm.github.com/cosm-js/tutorial/

accessing-incoming-put-data-from-php

create-a-rest-api-with-php

http://rest.elkstein.org/2008/02/using-rest-in-php.html

http://blog.garethj.com/2009/02/17/building-a-restful-web-application-with-php/

get for my feed

making-reliable-connections-with-arduino