REST API lego kit powering http://api.npolar.no

Rack-based reusable building blocks for running REST-style APIs over HTTP.

API endpoints are constructed like lego blocks by connecting a minimalist Core instance with a Storage object and assembling other middleware for security, validation, search/indexing, logging, transformation, etc.

Features

• Storage neutral, but currently built around CouchDB
• Lucene-based search via Elasticsearch or Solr
• Authorization
• Edit log
• JSON schema (validation)
• GeoJSON
• API browser, see e.g. http://api.npolar.no/dataset/?q=
• Model hooks
• Self-describing, see. http://api.npolar.no/service/dataset-api

Getting started

• Installation
• How to publish a new API

RubyDoc

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