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Subject: Re: Implementation of a generic rest module extracted from ADEiger
From: Bruno Martins <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 09:32:11 -0400
Hi Gary,

I don't think there's an EPICS module for REST interfaces. At the time I didn't even find a C/C++ REST/HTTP library that I liked, that's why I rolled my own. Since it seems that more detectors are adopting REST APIs, it would be worthwhile to have a standard way of talking to them. Probably something built on top of asyn would be the way to go.


Bruno

On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 11:43 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
At DLS we are currently looking at integrating our Odin detectors (Excalibur, Percival, TimePix), which have a RESTful API, into areaDetector. The main target being Excalibur at the moment. I like the rest interface implemented by Bruno Martins in ADEiger, so I think it would be worthwhile to extract the generic parts of it to use for my use case. ADEiger could then be refactored to use the new module. This leads to a few questions:

Does a standalone epics module implementing a rest client API already exist?

Is this a good design for such an interface?

Should it be called rest, or restclient, allowing a separate restserver module to be created should that be useful in the future?

Cheers,
Gary

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