REST Template

This template gives you the base for building RESTFul web services with ColdBox. Check out the handlers folder to see how to leverage our base event handler component for RESTFul routing, consistency and marshalling.

In the models folder you will find our Universal REST Response object that can be leveraged as your base for building RESTFul services.

Implicit Methods

The base handler implements an around handler approach to provide consistency and the following actions:

• onError - Fires whenever there is a runtime exception in any action
• onInvalidHTTPMethod - Fires on invalid HTTP method access
• onMissingAction - Fires on invalid missing actions on handlers

Utility Functions

We also give you some utility functions for RESTFul building:

• routeNotFound - Can be used to fire of route not founds via 404
• onExpectationFailed - Can be called when an expectation of a request fails, like invalid parameters/headers etc.
• onAuthorizationFailure - Can be called to send a NOT Authorized status code and message.

HTTP Security

By default the base handlers leverages ColdBox method security via the this.allowedMethods structure:

this.allowedMethods = {
    "index"     : METHODS.GET,
    "get"       : METHODS.GET,
    "list"      : METHODS.GET,
    "update"    : METHODS.PUT & "," & METHODS.PATCH,
    "delete"    : METHODS.DELETE
};

HTTP Methods

The base handler contains a static construct called METHODS that implements basic HTTP Methods that you can use for messages and allowed methods.

METHODS = {
    "HEAD"      : "HEAD",
    "GET"       : "GET",
    "POST"      : "POST",
    "PATCH"     : "PATCH",
    "PUT"       : "PUT",
    "DELETE"    : "DELETE"
};

Status Codes

The base handler contains a static construct called STATUS that implements basic HTTP status codes you can use:

STATUS = {
    "CREATED"               : 201,
    "ACCEPTED"              : 202,
    "SUCCESS"               : 200,
    "NO_CONTENT"            : 204,
    "RESET"                 : 205,
    "PARTIAL_CONTENT"       : 206,
    "BAD_REQUEST"           : 400,
    "NOT_AUTHORIZED"        : 401,
    "NOT_FOUND"             : 404,
    "NOT_ALLOWED"           : 405,
    "NOT_ACCEPTABLE"        : 406,
    "TOO_MANY_REQUESTS"     : 429,
    "EXPECTATION_FAILED"    : 417,
    "INTERNAL_ERROR"        : 500,
    "NOT_IMPLEMENTED"       : 501
};

License

Apache License, Version 2.0.

Important Links

Source Code

• https://github.com/coldbox-templates/rest

Quick Installation

Each application templates contains a box.json so it can leverage CommandBox for its dependencies.
Just go into each template directory and type:

box install

This will setup all the needed dependencies for each application template. You can then type:

box server start

And run the application.

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