ColdBox Relax v1.7 Released

lmajano@ortussolutions.com (Luis Majano) — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:51:25 GMT

We are proud to announce yet another version of our open source RESTful assistant: ColdBox Relax - RESTful Tools For Lazy Experts! For those of you who do not know what ColdBox Relax is, here you go:

What is Relax? ColdBox Relax is a set of RESTful tools for lazy experts. We pride ourselves in helping developers work smarter and of course document more in less time by providing them the necessary tools to automagically document and test. ColdBox Relax is a way to describe RESTful web services, test RESTful web services, monitor RESTful web services and document RESTful web services. Now with version 1.5 you can also share RESTful web service definitions and manage a library of RESTful definitions.

So what's new with version 1.7:

Various fixes to JSON lint and formatting
Throw exceptions on invalid loading of API's
New programmatic DSL for defining resources instead of an implicit struct/array notation
New self-documenting DSL, what would be a project without documentation
Addition of defaultFormat() and defaultMethod() for each resource definition
Addition of JS auto-select of default format and methods if defined in resource in the RelaxURL tester console

The most important feature of this release is that now you have a great programmatic DSL to define your RESTful resources:

resource(pattern="/api/user/:username",handler="rest.user",action="{'get':'view','post':'create','put':'update','delete','remove'}")
.description("The representation for system users. You can also interact with creation, updating and deletion via this resource")
.methods("GET,POST,PUT,DELETE")
.defaultMethod("GET")
.defaultFormat("json")
.header(name="x-test",description="Return test in a header",required="true")
.param(name="firstName",description="The user firstname. Only used on PUT and POST operations",required="true")
.param(name="lastName",description="The user lastname. Only used on PUT and POST operations",required=true)
.param(name="email",description="The user email. Only used on PUT and POST operations",required="false")
.placeholder(name="username",description="The resource username to interact with",required=true);

Resources, links and information:

Download: http://coldbox.org/forgebox/view/coldbox-relax
Source Code: https://github.com/ColdBox/coldbox-relax
Documentation: http://wiki.coldbox.org/wiki/Projects:Relax.cfm

CFCamp 2011 Presentations

lmajano@ortussolutions.com (Luis Majano) — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:47:31 GMT

We are posting our slide deck and also our mobile demo code from our CFCamp 2011 presentations. This was truly a great conference and had an absolute blast presenting. Thanks CFCamp and see you next year!

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