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

[Graham Klyne <[e-mail]>]

On 16/02/2014 03:55, John Levine wrote:
>> One of the major advantages of using URI templates, beyond freeing the
>> server from conforming to conventions, is that it makes client code
>> really simple.
>
> People keep saying this.  My client is a three line shell script that
> uses wget and grep (really.)  Could you explain how that works with
> templates?

I've done something like this for apps I write by providing a simple template 
expansion service (POST template+parameters as JSON, get URI back).

E.g.

[[
# URI template expansion

echo "==== Request URI-template expansion ===="
cat >sample-params.txt <<END
{
   "template": "$TEMPLATE",
   "params":
   {
     "RO": "http://sandbox.wf4ever-project.org/rodl/ROs/simple-requirements/",
     "minim": "checklist-runnable.rdf",
     "purpose": "Runnable"
   }
}
END

EVALURI=$HOST`curl -X POST --data @sample-params.txt $HOST/uritemplate`

echo "==== URI: $EVALURI"
]]

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