Re: [webfinger] Webfinger extension for Sinatra

Cool! This looks like a simple way to map most information.  Note that, 
while properties are defined as "strings", there is nothing illegal 
about putting a a URI inside.  Just to avoid any possibility of error, 
might it be better to name properties like "name_property" or 
something?  If the tag has _property at the end, then put it in properties.

Paul

On 10/14/2013 4:31 PM, Eric Mill wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just wrote an extension for Sinatra, a popular Ruby-based 
> microframework, that adds a Webfinger endpoint for a given email 
> address and set of metadata:
> https://github.com/konklone/sinatra-webfinger#a-webfinger-plugin-for-sinatra
>
> The idea here is to lower the barrier to adding a Webfinger endpoint 
> for one's email, for people running Sinatra apps on their domain (like 
> me). I'm using this on my blog here 
> <https://konklone.com/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:eric@konklone.com>.
>
> It does a couple things I'd like your reaction to. For one, it 
> auto-decides whether data should be in "properties" or "links" based 
> on whether the value is a URL. For two, it lets you specify common 
> short strings as keys, and does the mapping to a URI for you, when 
> there is one.
>
> So this is the Ruby code:
> webfinger  "eric@konklone.com  <mailto:eric@konklone.com>"  =>  {
>    name:  "Eric Mill",
>    website:  "https://konklone.com"
> }
> And this is what the endpoint will produce:
> {
>    "subject":  "eric@konklone.com  <mailto:eric@konklone.com>",
>    "properties":  {
>      "http://schema.org/name":  "Eric Mill"
>    },
>    "links":  [
>      {
>        "rel":  "http://webfinger.net/rel/profile-page",
>        "href":  "https://konklone.com"
>      }
>    ]
> }
> I'm doing the mapping from field name to URI here: 
> https://github.com/konklone/sinatra-webfinger/blob/master/data/urns.yml based 
> on Will Norris' and Paul Jones' collections of URIs.
>
> Next, I'd like to tackle an extension for Jekyll, and a generator for 
> a straight static file you can serve with a couple of lines in 
> nginx/Apache/S3. I'll probably follow the approach I'm taking here in 
> sinatra-webfinger as closely as possible, so, feedback very welcome!
>
> -- Eric
>
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