Ways to implement a JSON RESTful service in C/C++
You might want to take a look at Casablanca introduced in Herb Sutter’s blog.
web-services
How does a wsimport generated client work?
Before I answer the questions, some clarification: JAX-WS is a specification for implementing web services in Java. It describes how WSDL artifacts can be mapped to Java classes and how this mapping can be applied using annotations. You can download the specification here. The tool wsimport is part of the reference implementation of this specification … Read more
Supplying a different version of JAXB for JAX-WS in Java 1.6
I was stuck on this problem but was able to use the “work around” listed in this forum Q&A by setting a system property like so: System.setProperty(“javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext”, “com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.ContextFactory”);
How to generate OAuth 2 Client Id and Secret
As section 2.2 of The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework says: The authorization server issues the registered client a client identifier — a unique string representing the registration information provided by the client. The client identifier is not a secret; it is exposed to the resource owner and MUST NOT be used alone for client authentication. … Read more
WCF using computer name instead of domain name when viewing MyService.svc?wsdl
WCF 4.0 has solved this issue in some instances with a new config option that use Request Headers: <behaviors> <serviceBehaviors> <behavior name=”AutoVaultUploadBehavior”> <useRequestHeadersForMetadataAddress> <defaultPorts> <add scheme=”https” port=”443″ /> </defaultPorts> </useRequestHeadersForMetadataAddress>
Can you explain the Web concept of RESTful?
A RESTful application is an application that exposes its state and functionality as a set of resources that the clients can manipulate and conforms to a certain set of principles: All resources are uniquely addressable, usually through URIs; other addressing can also be used, though. All resources can be manipulated through a constrained set of … Read more
Has anyone parsed Wiktionary? [closed]
I had at one time downloaded a wiktionary dump, trying to gather together words and definitions for slavic languages. I approached it using elementtree to go thru the xml file that is the dump. I would avoid trying to scrape or crawl the site, and just download the xml dump that wikimedia provides for wiktionary. … Read more
HTTP Basic Authentication instead of TLS client certification
[the] poster says if we dont use client SSL certification server does not really know whom its talking to. That’s not what I said 🙂 This is what I said: Unless you’re using TLS client authentication, SSL alone is NOT a viable authentication mechanism for a REST API. alone being the key word here. Also: … Read more
can’t access the added service reference
I found the solution HERE which as Hoakie mentioned below instructions worked for me and my reference.cs is generated properly now: 1) Right click on Service Reference 2) Select Configure Service Reference 3) Uncheck “Reuse types in referenced assemblies” and Voila!