HAL support? about restangular HOT 3 CLOSED

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Would be interested in seeing support/thoughts on this.
Restangular is more flexible than ngResource for this kind of approach, but I guess dedicated instructions would be welcome

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Hey,

I'm not planning on implementing HAL right now. I might be able to implement it on the future.

Anyway, it wouldn't be that hard to implement it. I can give you some tips and then you can create a Pull Request with this implemented and I'll add it to the current codebase.

Restangular supports setting a UrlCreator. That URLCreator will be the one who has to take care about creating the URL to call depending on the tree.

Check https://github.com/mgonto/restangular/blob/master/src/restangular.js#L139

You can create your own implementation of URLCreator using the base prototype from BaseCreator. With that you can configure creating URLs based on __link.

Then, regarding embed resources, I think that they should be "inner" Restangularized objects. So, what I'd do is to add a Hook to this URLCreator (and maybe rename it RestStrategy) which will be called after some element has been received and restangularized. After that, I think that you can actually check the tree for that object and if you find some embedable resource, then you can restangularize it (Removing that __link boilperplate and adding it as metadata to to the object for creating the URL only), and then return the "processed" tree with only ojects and no metadata. Metadata will be there in the form of properties or functions (like other Restangular stuff), but wouldn't be in the way of the real model information.

Does this make sense?

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Closing this one and continuing discussion in Making URLCreator issue.

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