Rest server – How to

[Sergio_Molino]

I try to understand how build a Rest server with Xojo, I have very little experience with REST server.
So I am looking for some example on how to do.

I found two framework:

• Express from: GitHub - sworteu/Express: Express is a Xojo API 2.0 compilant speed optimized webserver that is orignally based on AloeExpress by Tim Dietrich.
  Let this framework build a REST server? where may find some example?

• LunaAPI2 from: GitHub - Valdemar-VDSC/Luna-API2: LUNA for XOJO API2
  I understood that this framework let build a webREST app, but is more targhet to DB backend, there is some documentation about this one?
  My application is not a DB server application.

Any help or suggestion is welcome.
Thanks

[Patrick_Salo]

Here’s another one for you from Greg O’Lone that you missed.

[Wayne_Golding]

Here’s a simple one for you. Place this code in the HandleURL event handler in the App class.

Var j As New JSONItem
j.Value("Address") = request.RemoteAddress
response.Status = 200
response.Header("content-type") = "application/json"
response.Write(j.ToString)
Return True

This code simply returns the ip address of the machine making the request to the web application or the ip address of the router if called remotely.

[Sergio_Molino]

Thank you Patrick and Wayne, I will check and try

[Daniel_Mullins]

Depending on what the web app is doing, I have found that you cannot do big processes here (HandleURL). If you need to process data to send back to a client, have the client connect and request, and have it poll to get the info when the server has it ready, and ready to send without a whole lot of processing (i.e. just grabbing it from a variable and passing it on).