Re: [apps-discuss] draft-ietf-weirds-bootstrap-00 and our lawn -- feedback?

[Nico Williams <[e-mail]>]

On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Darrel Miller <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Your client is a three line shell script because someone took the time
> to write programs like wget that implement a standard protocol.  It
> would surprise me if someone hasn't already written a URI template
> processing utility that you can call from your script.  Your 3 lines
> would likely end up being 4 lines. Pseudocode would look something
> like,

It'd probably still be three loc because where RDAP says to find base
URIs now one would find templates, and then it's just a matter of
passing the named parameters' values to wget in the one command.
Granted, wget (and curl) lacks template support, but it shouldn't be
hard to fix that (or to implement a command-line template expander).

Having just met and read RFC6570, I must say, it seems like the right way to go.

Here's a list of open source URI template implementations:

https://code.google.com/p/uri-templates/wiki/Implementations

Nico
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