#12. Paul Winkeler on 16 August 2010

This REST plugin for cakephp is exactly what the Dr ordered. Does it indeed work for cakephp version 1.3 as well?

#11. Kevin on 29 June 2010

@ steve: Look like it's your webserver: http://www.checkupdown.com/status/E413.html

Furthermore, you may find the clien-side of this API interesting that I developed for my company:
http://github.com/true/true-api

#10. steve on 22 June 2010

Hi... I figured out how to implement 2-legged OAuth with my API, but I now have another issue that I can't figure out. Have you ever executed a HTTP PUT with files? I keep getting 413 errors when send when I try to PUT anything to my API. Here are what the headers look like, any advice?:

[0] => Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="DSC01264.JPG"
[1] => Content-Type: application/octet-stream
[2] => Content-Length: 64250
... [more] [3] => Authorization: OAuth realm="", oauth_requester_id="720", oauth_signature_method="HMAC-SHA1", oauth_signature="Rom3hREK8p2PzMBXdzIJb3hy%2FF0%3D", oauth_nonce="4c210a01d83d9", oauth_timestamp="1277233665", oauth_token="", oauth_consumer_key="1385adb7be6ade0a0bf7d5493fd0722404c1795eb", oauth_version="1.0", xoauth_body_signature="8ap46NO3buRxIbzAtFc5OFa6FNY%3D"

thanks,

Steve

#9. steve on 11 June 2010

Kevin thanks for the reply! Do you have any hints on how I could handle this Amazon Authentication... Do you happen to have an expample I could see?
I am building a REST API now, and I could use all the advice I could get.
Thanks!
Steve

#8. Kevin on 10 June 2010

@ steve: Hey, no your app still handles the authentication, that's what makes it flexible. But it parses the string for you and inside your login procedure you just check for it with

$this->Rest->credentials();

as (kind of) explained on: http://github.com/kvz/cakephp-rest-plugin

#7. steve on 08 June 2010

Kevin,
Thank you very much for this plugin! I am a bit confused about the authentication. Does this plugin actually handle the Amazon-style authentication and return the appropriate HTTP response codes? Or, does it simply parse out the Amazon-style Header:

`Authorization: TRUEREST username=john&password=xxx&apikey=247b5a2f72df375279573f2746686daa`

... [more] into an array that can then be used effectively with some other security component?

Thanks,

Steve

#6. Kevin on 29 April 2010

@ gkibria: Did you make the necessary parseExtensions adjustments in your router so that Cake will try to parse json?

Your index is fine.
If in that controller you specify:

public $components = array(
        'Rest.Rest' => array(
            'debug' => 1,
            'index' => array(
                'extract' => array('products' => 'myProducts'),
            ),
        ),
    );

It should show you the contents of products under 'myProducts' in json format, when you browse to /index.json

#5. gkibria on 24 April 2010

Thanks for info. But when I enable Rest.Rest component in products controller, I can't browse neither /products/index nor /products/index.json and after disable the component it works fine. any idea?

And Here is my index()

function index() {
    $this->Product->recursive = 0;
    $this->set('products', $this->paginate());
    
  }

my cake_core is 1.25 thanks

#4. Kevin on 24 April 2010

@ gkibria: Only .json is supported for now. You should try that.
No the trick is you

$this->set('name', 'gkibria');

like you would normally with your index()

Only the restcomponent can take the viewVars you specify, maybe even convert them into another (more rest-consistent) format, and them json_encode them.
XML serialization is being worked on.

#3. gkibria on 24 April 2010

Hello

Thanks for your plugin. I have a products controller with index action working fine. When I added Rest.Rest component in my products controller I got "Error: The requested address '/products' was not found on this server." for /products

And /products.xml give me" XML Parsing Error: no element found"
... [more]
When I disable Rest.Rest component, /products are working fine. Can you tell me what's wrong?

Another thing, Do I have to place any additional code in index() action?

Many Thanks

#2. Kevin on 14 March 2010

@ Tamas Jozsa: Hey. No you tie it in with existing controllers & actions. So if you already have:
/posts/view/1

you could add the Rest component to your PostsController and then you could do
/posts/view/1.json
... [more]
to get the same data but in json format and with additional features like authentication

#1. Tamas Jozsa on 12 March 2010

Hi Kevin,

This plug-in is exactly what I'm searching for. Will try it out today and when I have time I will return to give a feedback.

One thing I do not understand so far is, how to call this from a browser. Is it like:
... [more]
www.hostname.com/rest/<modelname>s ???

And how to select whether to output to JSON or XML. As I see in the code XML is there in many places.

Thanks,
Regards,
Tamas