Show HN: MockREST – Create REST APIs from Your JSON Content

by jventura • 9 years ago

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jventura4• 9 years ago

Hi HN, I'm a teacher in a local university, and in one of my courses (Service's-Oriented Mobile Development) I need the students to access a CRUD API. Since some of them are not attending my other course (Backend development), and the project is "open" (they can implement a CRUD mobile app for any domain), I've built MockREST to allow them to mock APIs to their wishes.

So, for a JSON like this:

    {
      "person": [
        {
          "id": 1,
          "name": "John Smith",
          "age": 22
        },
        {
          "id": 2,
          "name": "John Doe",
          "age": 23
        }
      ],
      "post": [
        {
          "id": 1,
          "title": "Hello World",
          "format": "text"
        },
        {
          "id": 2,
          "title": "Goodbye Cruel World",
          "format": "text"
        }
      ]
    }

It will allow you to access /api/person (/api/person/<id>/) and /api/post. You can use all HTTP verbs such as GET/POST/PUT and DELETE to change the information, and then access the modified json in the api backend.

I've polished it a little bit, and I'm trying to see if there is a larger interest in this. If all goes well, I may add "pro" features such as longer sessions (the API tokens only last 24h for now), password protection, etc.

Hope you like it, let me know if you find any errors, or have comments or suggestions! Thanks!

GordonS• 9 years ago

Looks useful!

Do you plan to open source this and/or try to commercialise it?

jventura4• 9 years ago

I'm mostly testing the waters, but if people find it useful in the long term, I would like to commercialise it (probably as a SaaS), maybe by providing "pro" features such as authentication, longer expiration dates for the API tokens, things like that..

nklas• 9 years ago

A small bug: if you hit the GO button without entering an apitoken, you get a 500 server error.

jventura4• 9 years ago

Fixed, thanks!

egfx• 9 years ago

Doesn't work...

jventura4• 9 years ago

Ups, there's something wrong, I'll have to check..

Edit: it's working now! All new tokens were having the expiration date incorrectly set.

Thanks for lettting me know!

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