Grouper Developers Forum

["RL 'Bob' Morgan" <>]

As I've mentioned, REST is all the rage around here.  Here is a writeup of 
a recent design exercise on a RESTful interface to our existing 
non-Grouper groups service:

  https://wiki.cac.washington.edu/x/TpNh

The meat of the resulting design, such as it is, is in sections 4 and 5.

For background, UW's current groups service is minimal, basically a way to 
import group info from various sources and export into an LDAP directory. 
So the design so far is about reading and writing; no searching, no 
namespace (stem) management, no subject source access, etc.  But I thought 
it could be useful for folks to consider the approach.  In particular 
eyebrows might be raised about the choice of XHTML for output rather than 
XML; I guess this is a common suggestion for RESTful interfaces.

 - RL "Bob"