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For now, what I'm doing to get resthub for my students :

• get the source tarball here for latest stable tag (today 1.1.2.1)
• unzip it in a folder on my computer
• do mvn package
• go to target/resthub-1.1.2.1
• remove WEB-INF and META-INF folders
• make a zip with what is remaining (test, documentation and lib)
• distribute directly this zip to my students

It should have been :

• distribute to my students the download url

It's way too complicated to get a 100% sure working resthub-js (sources may work directly, but only mvn package can make us sure of it) if you just don't need/want to use resthub / tomcat / maven / java

makes possible to do weird things like $(el)'' ...

most likely needs something like

if (pluginname && !$.fn[pluginname])  {
   ...

for the base Controller, pluginname === ""

Add a listAll() function to repository.js in order to request the GET /all method of generic controller (return unpagined results)

problem in the feature test on ie < 8.

    if(!localStorage) {
        throw('localStorage support is required');
    }

should be

    if(!localStorage) {
        throw new Error('localStorage support is required');
    }

or even just return and fail silently.

note: might be a way better solution to rely on modernizr for feature testing

When you instantiate multiple controllers on the same div, the contollers event listeners are not properly destroyed. It produces some strange bug like rendering on the wrong component.

Compatibility checked on IE 9, Firefox 10, Chrome 16, Safari 5

Right now, it is pretty "hard" to get a quick resthub-js distribution working for someone just interested in the JS part of the Resthub project.

What I had to do in order to be sure to get a "distributable" version for my students was :

• Getting the 1.1-rc4 download (available thanks to github which makes packages from branches ?)
• Do a mvn install (I guess I could avoid this, but this was just to make sure I'm not missing anything)
• Go to target/${finalname}
• Make a zip of "lib" and "test" folder (the latter in order to get some programming examples for a quick start)
• Distribute the zip and tell my students to unzip it in their webapp directory.

Most people doing JavaScript don't do it through Maven, so it would be better to provide a distributable package as well as the maven war ;)

Script loading and caching related issues cause make RESThub JS 1.1 apps unable to run under Internet Explorer 8 or 9.

underscore.js

Repo is at https://github.com/documentcloud/underscore/.

underscore is a fantastic utility library, we should use it.