Rest.li is a REST+JSON framework for building robust, scalable service architectures using dynamic discovery and simple asynchronous APIs.
Rest.li fills a niche for building RESTful service architectures at scale, offering a developer workflow for defining data and REST APIs that promotes uniform interfaces, consistent data modeling, type-safety, and compatibility checked API evolution.
Oh, you want to see some code, don't you?
Basically, rest.li is a framework where you define schema's for your data:
{
"name" : "Greeting", "namespace" : "com.example.greetings", "type" : "record",
"fields" : [
{ "name" : "message", "type" : "string" }
]
}Write servers:
@RestLiCollection(name = "greetings")
class GreetingsResource extends CollectionResourceTemplate<Long, Greeting> {
public Greeting get(Long key) {
return new Greeting().setMessage("Good morning!");
}
}And then write clients:
Response<Greeting> response = restClient.sendRequest(new GreetingsBuilders.get().id(1L).build()).get();
System.out.println(response.getEntity().getMessage());And get all the benefits of a robust, scalable REST+JSON framework.
See our wiki for full documentation and examples.