“MUrl”: A DSL for RESTful Clients
This is the first of three posts about our MIX talk/announcements.
Today we showed off “MUrl”, which is a DSL and runtime for interacting with HTTP services.
We think “MUrl” has a lot of potential and we are still working on it, but we didn’t want that to stop you from getting your hands on it.
As such, you can download the “MUrl” source code today from the “Oslo” Developer Center.
We are doing this for three reasons: we want you to have something that will make your life a little easier, we want to provide concrete proof of how “M” can be used to make your life easier, and we want to show how you can write your own “M”-based DSLs and runtimes.
I will be clear that “MUrl” is a work in progress and you are going to find things that don’t work the way you want/expect. You do have the source code however. Enjoy.
I’m wondering if you could generate a CodeDom for MUrl with Oslo, or would I be forced to dynamically generate MUrl code with .Write(”GET “); .WriteLine(url); etc?
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20 Mar 09 at 20:03
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We need a run-time code generation story instead of the current string builder approach. I can appreciate the run-time parsing usage, but I believe Oslo could generate a complier-friendly way to “code-generate” DSL code at run-time.
Instead of this:
var statements = runtime.Parse (@”? http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml authenticate using [Twitter]“);
We could write this in c#:
var statements = new MUrl.Get(”http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml”, Authentication.Twitter);
This could give you c# compile-time checking of some of the MUrl code. Behind the scenes, the above c# syntax could just convert the code to a string and parse.
George Tsiokos
24 Mar 09 at 18:37
How would one post POX (plain old xml) to a site using MuRL?
Delbert Aud
26 Mar 09 at 23:58
POST http://site
with []
as application/xml
douglasp
27 Mar 09 at 01:16
Im probably a bit thick but could anyone explain to me the authenticate with [Twitter] part?
How is this credential retrieved?
elgrego
30 Mar 09 at 16:14
There is a message giving me the respone
Expect: 100-continue
elgrego
30 Mar 09 at 20:09
Twitter is the name of a credential in CredMan. If you watch the video, you can see how to configure that.
douglasp
30 Mar 09 at 23:22
Are you hitting Twitter?
Add the below to ipad.exe.config
douglasp
30 Mar 09 at 23:23
Doug, It was indeed very simple to find CredMan!
As always, I expect something hard and it is usually very simple.
(I must have slept at that point in the presentation)
elgrego
31 Mar 09 at 06:01
“Add the below to ipad.exe.config”
I think you left something in your post?
elgrego
31 Mar 09 at 06:10
It now works.
I added System.Net.ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue = false;
in public WebResult Execute(WebStatement statement)
elgrego
31 Mar 09 at 06:23
that works or you can do in in the app.config.
douglasp
31 Mar 09 at 16:08
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