[offtopic] Re: REST client hints
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btw, SegmentIO seems quite impressive aggregating a huge number of services. How have you found the extra level of indirection in practice? how has your experience been with the sources you've tried? cheers -ben On 6 December 2017 at 06:06, Ben Coman <[hidden email]> wrote:
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Re: [offtopic] Re: REST client hints
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Hi Ben,
I haven't used it very much. Just some light testing a few years ago. I've just been using piwik.org on my own server and it works OK for now. Someday maybe I'll want to add segment to access other tools but not yet. Paul Ben Coman wrote > btw, SegmentIO seems quite impressive aggregating a huge number of > services. > How have you found the extra level of indirection in practice? > how has your experience been with the sources you've tried? > > cheers -ben > > On 6 December 2017 at 06:06, Ben Coman < > btc@ > > wrote: > >> Thanks Paul. It'll be good to review some concrete implementations, >> and nice to see what services other other people find useful. >> I got a momentary urge the create a Pharo Distribution or catalog entry >> called >> something like "SamplRest" with a GUI to explore available REST data >> sources. >> Marketing angle for Pharo would be helping less technical people get a >> "live" hold of >> data from these sources, and then incrementally script against those live >> objects. >> I guess a bit like SegmentIO but on your own desktop rather than through >> a >> third party. >> (but I've not got the time right now) >> >> cheers -ben >> >> >> On 6 December 2017 at 02:46, Paul DeBruicker < > pdebruic@ > > wrote: >> >>> Hi Ben, >>> >>> >>> I've made a few REST Clients >>> >>> http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~pdebruic/Stripe >>> http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~pdebruic/Tropo >>> http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~pdebruic/SegmentIO >>> >>> And the elasticsearch one but its been advanced mostly lately by Sho >>> Yoshida >>> (https://github.com/newapplesho) here >>> https://github.com/newapplesho/elasticsearch-smalltalk >>> >>> He has also made REST clients for Twilio, AWS, SendGrid, Salesforce, and >>> Mixpanel among others. >>> >>> Norbert Hartl made one for Mandrill (Mailchimps transactional email >>> service) >>> http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~NorbertHartl/Mandrill >>> >>> And Francois Stephany made one for Postmark (another transactional email >>> service) http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~PharoExtras/Postmark >>> >>> >>> So those are some examples of different approaches. >>> >>> >>> I also started/made a cross platform web client wrapper (just wraps >>> calls >>> to >>> ZnClient or WebClient on Squeak) >>> http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~pdebruic/HTTPAPIClient >>> >>> But IIRC I only used it in the Stripe API client. >>> >>> >>> Hope this gives you some ideas about how to approach your own solution >>> >>> Paul >>> >>> >>> >>> Ben Coman wrote >>> > I'm just about to write my first client interface to a REST service. >>> > In some respects I understand this is as simple as doing GET responses >>> > using Zinc, >>> > but I'm inquiring about tutorials or libraries that might help. Most >>> > of the stuff turned up by searches is about server-side of REST. >>> > >>> > cheers -ben >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html >>> >>> >> -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html |
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