Roadmap: "Automated REST API wrapping"?

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Wed Jan 17 13:12:16 EST 2018


Mark Waddingham wrote:

 > On 2018-01-17 04:29, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
 >>> The LC Roadmap at <https://livecode.com/resources/roadmap/> includes
 >>> under "Planned":
 >>>
 >>>   Automated REST API wrapping
 >>>
 >>> Sounds enticing.  What is it?
 >
 > This is referring to LiveCode Connect - which I did a prototype for in
 > an LCG2017 session...
 >
 > Its currently pegged for 'completion' in Q2 this year for LC9.1, and
 > assuming things align, we will likely have at least one more talk on
 > it in LCG2018, if not two (although the latter two things, in
 > particular, are subject to change).
 >
 > LC Connect uses Swagger/OpenAPI specs to generate script libraries
 > which wrap the APIs.

Sounds very cool.  What is the "automatic" part?  How does it map 
actions and endpoints to my schema?

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