[TYPO3-dev] TYPO3 CMS 8 and REST API

[Juergen Kussmann]

Hi Michael,
i have written the most code of the restler-extension....so i have a very big know how of it. In my oppinion, TYPO3 should not be the swizzer knife, which provide all possible features by the core. REST is an very good example. restler has a very big community in this topic and has very cool festures....why the TYPO3-core-team should try to reinvent the wheel? That make no sence and would cost a lot of time...BUT it would be very cool if we as extension-developer would have the possibility to 'integrate' third-party-frameworks more seemsless in TYPO3. The restler-extension is a good example for this: the extension use some core-methods (to bootstrap TYPO3 and override some bootstrapping) which extensions should normally NOT to use. But we use it to provide the best possible performance when calling an REST-endpoint...this could be done better/easier when there would be an API which could be used to e.g. bootstrap TYPO3 (e.g. bootstrap core, frontend, backend-user, database, caching-framework, load only defined extensions) inside an extension. Take a closer look inside the restler-extension and you will see what i mesn :-)

Cheers,
Jürgen