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[Sandy Walsh <sandy.walsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds awesome!

I've done an application like this in the past where an entire web UI was data driven using a custom IDL. It had to have presentation hints associated with it (acceptable values, display widget, etc). Not something WADL supports inherently I'm sure. But, I know from experience this can work.

I don't really care what the IDL is, so long as we don't have to write a parser for it in 10 different languages ... which is why XML/JSON hold such appeal (although JSON in C keeps me awake at night).

-S



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From: Mark Nottingham [mnot@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 10:38 AM
To: Sandy Walsh
Cc: Mellquist, Peter; Joseph Heck; openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Openstack] +1,  All services should have WADLs

I'm totally on board with having the interface being machine-consumable at runtime -- see the previous discussion on versioning and extensibility -- but WADL isn't really designed for this. I'm sketching up something more appropriate, and will be able to talk about it soon (hopefully).