Features
RESTful services gain their advantage from their simplicity. No SOAP envelope, no WSDL, straight data. What more? The data can be streamed in any number of formats. If the data is to be consumed using JavaScript or a similar scripting language, utilize the JSON format to serialize directly into objects. If the data is to consumed directly by a user, use the simple HTML format to navigate data. If you wish to consume data into other languages, perhaps your choice will be to use the XML format. Better yet, MeanFiddler provides client apis in some of your favorite lanugages and now your only concern is determining how best to work with the power at your fingertips.
See below for a matrix of features available in MeanFiddler:
| Feature | MeanFiddler 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Data Formats | |
| XML | Yes |
| JSON | Yes |
| HTML | Limited |
| RDF | No |
| Query Expressions | |
| Primary Keys | Yes |
| Complex Primary Keys | Yes* |
| Relation Navigation | Yes |
| Property Comparison | Equals, Not Equal, Less, Less or Equal, Greater, Greater or Equal |
| Logical Operators | And/Or |
| Relation Comparison | No** |
| Query Options | |
| callback | No |
| expand | Yes |
| format | Yes |
| keyset | No |
| orderby | Yes |
| skip | Yes |
| top | Yes |
| includeid | Yes |
| template | Yes |
| Domain Frameworks | |
| NHibernate | Yes |
| HTTP Verbs | |
| GET | Yes |
| POST | Yes*** |
| PUT | Yes*** |
| DELETE | Yes |
| Advanced Functions | |
| Custom REST queries | No |
| Client APIs | |
| .Net 2.0 | Yes |
** MeanFiddler does not support querying for objects of one type based on properties of a related type. You would need to query for the related type and navigate back to the desired type.
*** MeanFiddler does not support posting of relationships.