<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><div>On Jan 16, 2014, at 3:22 PM, Renat Akhmerov <<a href="mailto:rakhmerov@mirantis.com">rakhmerov@mirantis.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><ul class="MailOutline" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><li>Has anyone ever considered an idea of generating a fully functional REST client automatically based on an API specification (WADL could be used for that)? Not sure how convenient it would be, it really depends on a particular implementation, but as an idea it could be at least thought of. Sounds a little bit crazy though, I recognize it :).</li></ul></blockquote></div><div><br></div>Also please no. If you want “automatic client” stop being “REST” (which has been diluted to be meaningless or at least nothing like it’s actual definition) and be REST and/or Hypermedia. Things like WADL are completely antagonistic to actual REST (aka Hypermedia).<br><div>
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