Hi Cédrick,
I think making something like jsonplaceholder would be quite easy.
Do you know about the Zinc-REST package/group ?
It contains an example in its tests, ZnExampleStorageRestServerDelegate with unit tests in ZnExampleStorageRestServerDelegateTest which implements a generic data storage. Have a look !
BTW, recently I added ZnClient>>#forJsonREST, which uses either STONJSON (which is in the image) or NeoJSON (when loaded), so that you can more elegant code for this use case:
ZnClient new
url: '
https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts'; forJsonREST;
get.
ZnClient new
url: '
https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts'; forJsonREST;
contents: { #title->'Test'. #body->String loremIpsum } asDictionary;
post.
Sven
> On 6 Jun 2020, at 09:44, Cédrick Béler <
[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Hi Sven and all,
>
> Disclaimer: just another rather not important query (mainly for fun so don’t hesitate to tell me to use the node packages instead ;-) )
>
> To show API to students, I sometimes use
https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com. It’s nice to play with client requests. I wonder if this would be interesting to have such tools in Pharo/Zn. Maybe it exists already somehow (for Teapot eventually) ?
>
https://medium.com/codingthesmartway-com-blog/create-a-rest-api-with-json-server-36da8680136d>
> From their GitHub, I discovered json-server + lowdb (based on lowdash) => all nodes packages.
>
https://github.com/typicode.
>
> <GraphiqueCollé-6.tiff>
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> It uses a db file db.json and I like such simple « databases ». I know they're not real db.
>
https://github.com/typicode/lowdb
>
> To me, it could nearly be to me an elegant personal db even if I think this is mostly used to test API’s.
> Indeed, It’s often used in conjunction with node package faker (
https://github.com/marak/Faker.js/ (
https://github.com/marak/Faker.js/).
> I would like to use that to generate static websites from Ecstatic.
>
> The placeholder default website has limitations. For instance, the following request creates a new post (but then you cannot see the result if you query for posts just after)
>
> <GraphiqueCollé-5.png>
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>
> I wanted to go past the limitation of the placeholder site (the db.json cannot be written). I can of course use the node package but you know :) Might be not so straight to port though.
>
> So there are probably three open questions in this post:
> 1) lowdb (I know this is not a database but it’s handy and I’d like such usage in static website generation in conjunction with Ecstatic). Any already existing experiments maybe ? I don’t think Voyage can do that.
> 2) the API json-server based on routes (maybe a job for Teapot) ?
> 3) the faker package as a fun exercice.
>
> What others think ? My priority would go for having some kind of lowdb (and I’m pretty sure there are experiments around that - It reminds me a bit sandstonedb from Ramon
http://onsmalltalk.com/sandstonedb-simple-activerecord-style-persistence-in-squeak.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Cédrick
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