Lark – A REST interface for Redis

dyscrete 12 years ago |

This is just adding an extra layer between your data and redis, which defeats redis' purpose of being fast for particular use cases.

bsg75 12 years ago |

How does this compare (use cases?) to Webdis?

http://webd.is/

voidfiles 12 years ago | |

Webdis has more features right now. It has authentication, and it supports things like websockets. It's also written in C.

Lark is written in python and I would argue that Lark does a better job of meeting the expectations of what an API should be like supporting POSTs, and DELETEs.

It would also fit in well with an existing flask project. It has a blueprint that you can mount.

oAuth integration is planned, I am working on it right now. I also plan on making websockets work in the same manner as flask-sockets.

rafekett 12 years ago |

maybe i'm being a downer, but i feel like the latency of an HTTP request defeats the purpose of using redis in 99% of use cases.

drdaeman 12 years ago |

While this may be somewhat useful (particularly due to more fine-grained auth), I believe Redis is already being mostly-RESTful as REST is not about transporting data using HTTP. It's - going by Wikipedia list on REST constraitns - client-server (check), mostly stateless (check; states are only for pubsub and transactions), cacheable (uhm... partially), layered (check), and even has code-on-demand features.

slashdotaccount 12 years ago | |

This lark software isn't REST architectural style by the definition that matters (Fielding's).

http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hyperte...

No REST without link relations; and fixed resource identifiers go contrary. Nearly all HN submissions that claim to be REST are not, personally I haven't seen a single one in 2013. That's a shame.

pepve 12 years ago | | |

Either that, or the developer community has appropriated the term to mean something more generic.

the1 12 years ago | | |

yes, REST is same as web scale a.k.a mongodb. Developer community has also appropriated functional programming to mean angular.js. or was that underscore or something.

meowface 12 years ago | | |

Could you provide a good example of a fully RESTful API? I've seen lots of comments on HN and other places saying "this is not REST", but I don't really recall one where people said "yep, this is REST."

I'd be curious to see what it should really look like.

dragonwriter 12 years ago | | |

> Could you provide a good example of a fully RESTful API?

HTTP/1.1 (Not a particular API built on top of it, but HTTP itself.)

glassx 12 years ago | | |

http://atompub.org

http://www.odata.org

notastartup 12 years ago |

what would the benefit of this instead of rolling out your own REST api on Flask?