RESTHEART

Instant REST APIs for your data

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Get your API in minutes Supports all features of MongoDB Data API for Mobile Apps Develop REST Web Services Publish Content to the Web Handle users and permissions Available as binary package and Docker image Put data access under control Stream real-time data with WebSockets Integrate with MongoDB Notify clients with Hooks Create Open Data solutions Threat protection at every layer

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RESTHeart leverages MongoDB and provides the API required by modern applications. Get the 80% common requirements out-of-the-box and easily extend the API for the 20%.

  • Instant API for MongoDB
  • Built-in Authentication and Authorization
  • Easily Extend Business Logic
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RESTHeart is a backend for Web and Mobile apps, designed to radically simplify server-side development and deployment.

  • Ready-to-run stateless Microservice
  • Available as binary and Docker container
  • Deploy both on Cloud and on-premises
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Clean and ready-to-use Data API for MongoDB

Query documents from the command line with httpie.

The GET request has two query parameters: filter to apply a query and pagesize to limit the response to two documents.
Here we use the brilliant httpie, a modern command line HTTP client.

More examples 
$ http GET https://beta.mrest.io/demo/messages?filter='{"from":"Bob"}'\&pagesize=2 key:demo

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
# other response headers omitted

[
    {
        "_id": {
            "$oid": "5c50963e477870eb8258fa68"
        }, 
        "from": "Bob", 
        "message": "was here", 
        "timestamp": {
            "$date": 1548785214114
        }
    }, 
    {
        "_id": {
            "$oid": "5c50962f477870eb8258fa54"
        }, 
        "from": "Bob", 
        "message": "RESTHeart rocks", 
        "timestamp": {
            "$date": 1548785199983
        }
    }
]

Query documents from the command line with cURL.

The GET request has two query parameters: filter to apply a query (that needs to be encoded with --data-urlencode option since it contains the curly brackets) and pagesize to limit the response to two documents.
Here we use the immortal cURL!

More examples 
    
$ curl --header "key:demo" -G --data-urlencode 'filter={"from":"Bob"}' https://beta.mrest.io/demo/messages?pagesize=2

[
    {
        "_id": {
            "$oid": "5c50963e477870eb8258fa68"
        }, 
        "from": "Bob", 
        "message": "was here", 
        "timestamp": {
            "$date": 1548785214114
        }
    }, 
    {
        "_id": {
            "$oid": "5c50962f477870eb8258fa54"
        }, 
        "from": "Bob", 
        "message": "RESTHeart rocks", 
        "timestamp": {
            "$date": 1548785199983
        }
    }
]

Query documents with JavaScript.

The GET request has two query parameters: filter to apply a query and pagesize to limit the response to two documents.
Here we use the fetch API.

Run it 
const url = encodeURI('https://beta.mrest.io/demo/messages?filter={"from":"Bob"}&pagesize=2');

fetch(url, { headers: {'key':'demo'} })
  .then(response => response.json())
  .then(json => JSON.stringify(json, null, 2))
  .then(docs => console.log(docs));

Query documents with Java.

The GET request has two query parameters: filter to apply a query and pagesize to limit the response to two documents.
Here we use the unirest java http library.

More examples 
public void printOutMessages() throws UnirestException {
    var resp = Unirest.get("https://beta.mrest.io/demo/messages")
            .header("key", "demo")
            .queryString("filter", "{\"from\":\"Bob\"}")
            .queryString("pagesize", "2")
            .asJson();

    // get body as JSON array 
    var messages = resp.getBody().getArray();

    // print out each message
    messages.forEach(msg -> System.out.println(msg.toString()));
}

Query documents with Swift.

The GET request has two query parameters: filter to appy a query and pagesize to limit the response to two documents.
Here we use the JSONSerialization to parse the response body.

More examples 
import UIKit
import PlaygroundSupport

var urlComponents = URLComponents(string: "https://beta.mrest.io/demo/messages")

// set the query parameters
var queryItems = [URLQueryItem]()
queryItems.append(URLQueryItem(name: "pagesize", value: "2"))
queryItems.append(URLQueryItem(name: "filter", value: "{\"from\":\"Bob\"}"))
urlComponents?.queryItems = queryItems

var urlRequest = URLRequest(url: (urlComponents?.url)!)

// set the key request header
urlRequest.setValue("demo", forHTTPHeaderField: "key")

// set request method
urlRequest.httpMethod = "GET"

URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: urlRequest) { (data, response, error) in
    guard let dataResponse = data, error == nil
    else {
        print(error?.localizedDescription ?? "Response Error")
        return
    }
    
    do {
        let jsonResponse = try JSONSerialization.jsonObject(with: dataResponse, options: [])
        print(jsonResponse)
    } catch let jsonError {
        print(jsonError)
    }
}.resume()

// only needed in playground
PlaygroundPage.current.needsIndefiniteExecution = true

Examples use mrest.io cloud service for RESTHeart that requires the api key

Our commitment

RESTHeart is built for stability, coded on a solid java foundation and covered by hundreds of tests. We will evolve RESTHeart rapidly, based on your feedback, and keep it flexible with an open extension mechanism.

Elegant Java and Kotlin Framework to extend the API

Implement web services in minutes.

Implement a simple interface and deploy the web service by copying its jar file into the plugins directory.

More examples 
@RegisterPlugin(name = "greeterService", 
    description = "sends a greetings message",
    defaultURI = "/greetings")
public class GreeterService implements JsonService {
    @Override
    public void handle(JsonRequest request, JsonResponse response) {
        if (request.isGet()) {
            var content = new JsonObject();
            content.addProperty("message", "Hello World!");
            response.setContent(content);
        } else {
            response.setStatusCode(400);
        }
    }
}

Implement plugins in Kotlin.

You can use Java and Kotlin to implement plugins.

Kotlin Service example 
@RegisterPlugin(name = "kotlinGreeterService",
description = "sends a greetings message, implemented in Kotlin",
defaultURI = "/greetings")
class GreeterServiceKt : JsonService {
    override fun handle(request: JsonRequest?, response: JsonResponse?) {
        if (request?.isGet!!) {
            var greetings = JsonObject()
            greetings.addProperty("msg", "Hello World!")
            response?.content = greetings;
        } else {
            response?.statusCode = 400;
        }
    }
}

Snoop and modify requests at different stages of their lifecycle.

This interceptor applies to requests of the hello web service adding a timestamp to the response content.
Interceptor can be executed at different points of the request as defined by the interceptPoint parameter of the annotation RegisterPlugin

More examples 
    
@RegisterPlugin(name = "helloInterceptor", 
    description = "add a timestamp to the response of /hello",
    interceptPoint = InterceptPoint.RESPONSE)
public class HelloInterceptor implements JsonInterceptor {
    @Override
    public void handle(JsonRequest request, JsonResponse response) throws Exception {
        // add timestamp property to the response
        response.getContent()
                .getAsJsonObject()
                .addProperty("timestamp", Instant.now().toString());
    }

    @Override
    public boolean resolve(JsonRequest request, JsonResponse response) {
        // apply for request handled by hello service 
        // when the response content is a JSON Object
        return request.isHandledBy("hello")
                && response.getContent() != null
                && response.getContent().isJsonObject();
    }
}

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