Hal Browser demo doesn't work

[tomq42]

Attempting to use
http://haltalk.herokuapp.com/explorer/browser.html
doesn't work.

If I just use GET /users, I get an internal server error.
Attempting to POST /users to create a new user leads to a 404.

[mikekelly]

Yep, it needs some love. A heroku upgrade triggered a bunch of library incompatibilities. I did try and fix the dependencies but it was taking too long with no results, I intend to rewrite it if/when I get time.

[tomq42]

OK, no problem.
Thing is there's not a lot of doc about HAL. Specifically how collections are
represented, which is slightly unusual IMO. So I was trying to find some
examples. I eventually found some examples elsewhere (apigility I think).

Thanks.

On 17 February 2016 at 17:24 Mike Kelly [email protected] wrote:

Yep, it needs some love. A heroku upgrade triggered a bunch of library
incompatibilities. I did try and fix the dependencies but it was taking too
long with no results, I intend to rewrite it if/when I get time.

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[dylanbeattie]

@tomq42 - have you seen the docs at http://phlyrestfully.readthedocs.org/en/latest/halprimer.html#collections ? Some very useful examples in there of how to model collections in HAL.

[tomq42]

Yes, but it was so weird that I don't think I understood it originally. But I
think I understand the example a bit better now.

On 18 February 2016 at 10:04 Dylan Beattie [email protected] wrote:

@tomq42 https://github.com/tomq42 - have you seen the docs at
http://phlyrestfully.readthedocs.org/en/latest/halprimer.html#collections ?
Some very useful examples in there of how to model collections in HAL.

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[linde12]

Would be nice to see the demo page fixed indeed!

[hnilsen]

Just dropping in to give my support :-)

[heygambo]

Hey yeah. I'd like to help too if there is something I can do.

[mikekelly]

Hi all. So the rails app is a write-off, it uses a very old database driver. It was something I hacked together in a couple of hours anyway.

I think the best course of action is for someone to create a a new implementation of the hal-talk API. I don't have the bandwidth to do this at the moment. If someone wants to take this on and put it on a public github repo, I'll setup the heroku app so that it auto-deploys from it.

[mikekelly]

I can dump the existing data, and extract the link relation docs... so if someone does want to take this on let me know and I'll do that

[mhogerheijde]

So we're talking about having a small app that implements a few API calls backed by some sort of persistence layer, right? The front-end itself is just (statically served) Javascript, right?

What about the API documentation? That's served (statically) by the backend as well right?

Do you have an opinion on the Tech-stack that will be used?

[mikekelly]

Not really, preferably something simple and lightweight. Ruby or node.js or similar. It doesn't matter too much to be honest.

I think basically the API just needs some use cases that demonstrates key concepts in a HAL API, ie: traversing links (read, write, delete), embedding resources, etc

I picked "talk" just because it's a relatively simple read/write domain

[mhogerheijde]

All right, coming weekend is a busy one for me, so I'll try to make a start next week/weekend. I'll keep you posted.