#The REST Files
The Rest files is a ServiceStack Example project providing complete management of your remote filesystem, over a REST-ful web services API, in a GitHub browser-like widget.
The client is written in 1 static default.html page, and uses only jQuery Because of the advanced HTML5 features used its best viewed in a modern browser (i.e. anything recent that's not IE)
- CSS3 is used for folder browser animations
- HTML5 History State API is used for ajax state and page navigation
The /files service exposes a complete strong-typed REST-ful API, the entire implementation of which fits in only
1 C# class.
As it was developed using the http://servicestack.net Open Source .NET/Mono Web Services Framework it also able to expose this REST-ful API over a myraid of formats (with no extra code/config):
*Note: The speed of web services are faster than what they appear, as the delay + animations are for gratuitous purposes only :) All but the xml format uses the high-performance cross-platform, serializers in ServiceStack.Text. e.g the JsonSerializer serializer used is over 3.6x faster that the fastest JSON Serialzer shipped with .NET, see: the Northwind Benchmarks
SOAP 1.1/1.2 endpoints are also available at the following url:
As a result of the strong-typed DTO pattern used to define the the webservice, ServiceStack is able to generate the xsds, wsdls, metadata documentation on the fly at:
Caveat: XmlSchema is not fully implemented as of MONO <= 2.8, so in many cases you will need to host your service on a Windows/.NET server to view your web services XSD and WSDLS.
The live demo is hosted on Linux (Cent OS) / Nginx using MONO
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