[Mailman-Developers] How to get started with the REST server(was Re: Hello!! Help Needed)

[mk2s at digitalcommute.com]

This is a quick response to "How do you get started with the  
restserver?" question.   
https://code.launchpad.net/~mk2s/mailman/restserver

All of this is very much work in progress, but server.py is probably  
where you want to start.  There isn't much there, mostly because the  
routes package takes care of the disptach.

I run my server as follows:
$ cd ~/mailman22runtime
$ PYTHONPATH=. python Mailman/rest/server.py

listConroller.py is the only controller currently implemented it  
responds to a get request like the following:
$ lynx http://localhost:8000/lists/makitest
where makitest is the name of my test list that already exists.  The  
response is a HTML representation of the attributes of the list.

it also responds to a request like:
lynx http://localhost:8000/lists/
with a list of all the lists

the controller uses the .html file as templates for returning HTML  
representation responses.  Currently I have the response hardwired to  
HTML, but in theory the json representation should also work.

also see:
http://www.makotemplates.org/
http://routes.groovie.org/manual.html



Quoting aman parnami <amanparnami at gmail.com>:
> Hi Mike,
> I was able to get your code from launchpad after some manipulations
> and lots of patience. Now onwards downloads will be smooth for me.
>
> I just swept through the directory structure of restserver and got a
> little confused. It would be grateful if you could tell me the
> starting point and
> if possible (will be highly appreciated) the order in which files
> should be read to understand them better and sooner.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> AMAN PARNAMI
> CSE DEPTT
> Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
>



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