[TYPO3-dev] TYPO3 CMS 8 and REST API

[Michael Schams]

Hi Jürgen,

Thanks for your feedback! Regarding TYPO3 core vs. extension: at the end
of the day, I don't care if the core provides such a feature or an
extension - as long as the extension is robust, stable/secure, actively
maintained and follows the quality guidelines of the core :-)

Keeping the core slim is also a good idea and general practise already.

I can not assess if it makes sense more than for a feature like a REST
API to have it in the core or as an extension (maybe someone from the
core team has an opinion and wants to comment on this?).

@Jürgen: do you have some concrete suggestions what should be changed in
the core in v8 to make your life easier? Maybe it's worth a discussion?
Maybe you can start an initiative?


Cheers
Michael

On Fri, 2016-04-22 at 20:56 +0200, Juergen Kussmann wrote:
> 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 
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