Quiz of the Week - Week 3 - Build a REST Service

Ok, now for this week we will change our regular pattern and have a programming exercise. This is a required activity for all the folks involved in the Cloud project or others who attended the App Engine session.

Here is what you need to do:

1) Build a REST Web Service to expose some key interfaces to access your system entities. You are free to use any approach but we recommend the Data Nucleus API which comes with App Engine and deploy on App Engine. Here are some jars you may need to include in your project Data Nucleus Jar and Flex json

2) Once you build your APIs share with us urls/invoking process and what each of them provide. Cover some key read/search APIs. We will review your system entities and the data that we can retrieve against your project requirements.

3) Extra bonus points if someone can build something to consume the REST APIs and display the content :-) .. step 3 is for the folks who can stretch

No specific rules this time, all standard rules apply and you have till Saturday to complete this.

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Permalink Reply by Roshan Nagekar on February 27, 2011 at 11:39am

hey congrats dude........

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Permalink Reply by Tarun Rathor on February 27, 2011 at 1:06pm

One great tool to help in debugging this and all kind of web API is Fiddler.

Fiddler is a Web Debugging Proxy which logs all traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all traffic, set breakpoints, and "fiddle" with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler includes a powerful event-based scripting subsystem, and can be extended using any .NET language.

Fiddler is freeware and can debug traffic from virtually any application, including Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and thousands more.

http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/

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Permalink Reply by Kaushik on February 27, 2011 at 6:37pm

Great job Jagz, congrats on winning once again. I know we did bend the rules this time and it took far longer but good to see the persistence to get it done :-)