Members of the Federation provide simple CGI's on a server they own, programmed in whatever language they prefer, which responds at the URL specified within the Fedwiki Page Json. In this way we create an evolving REST API for wiki.
This is an example of:
A proposal to create hosting infrastructure that we give to students to code restful Web services in any programming language.
The basic idea behind Literate Wiki is for a wiki page to describe and document a software program as well as to extract the code that is described.
The wiki-client has the responsibility to check the returned JSON for validity, and if it passes it uses it to add items to the current wiki-page.
# See also
A REST API is an API that provides it's interface through REST. Here we list a number of services and projects that help you develop and maintain a robust REST API.
Members of the Federation provide simple CGI's on a server they own, programmed in whatever language they prefer, which responds at the URL specified with Fedwiki Page Json.
Here we list a set of plugins that essentially provide the ability for site-owners to specify REST calls to services they create or wish to use:
A site-owner is able to double-click and edit the text of the plugin - providing a URL to a RESTful Web Service, and optionally some data to POST.
Here we outline some provisional notes on authenticating RESTful Web Service's in Fedwiki.