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Edit

Rick Strahl, C# MVP extraordinaire, has released a very cool app at codepaste.net. Go and check it out, it’s quite cool.

One of the things Rick is doing is publishing a POD API that uses xml and json. And he posted on an unrelated entry an implementation of POD using MVC. For reference, here’s his snippet.

AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post | HttpVerbs.Put)]
public ActionResult PostNewCodeSnippetObject()
{
    StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(Request.InputStream);
    string data = sr.ReadToEnd();
    sr.Close();

    Snippet inputSnippet = null;

    if (Request.ContentType == "text/javascript" || Request.ContentType == "application/json")
    {
        JSONSerializer ser = new JSONSerializer(SupportedJsonParserTypes.WestWindJsonSerializer);
        inputSnippet = ser.Deserialize(data, typeof(Snippet)) as Snippet;
    }
    else if (Request.ContentType == "text/xml")
    {
        inputSnippet = SerializationUtils.DeSerializeObject(data, typeof(Snippet)) as Snippet;
    }
    else
        return ExceptionResult("Unsuppported data input format. Please provide input content-type as text/javascript, application/json or text/xml.");


    busCodeSnippet codeSnippet = new busCodeSnippet();
    codeSnippet.NewEntity();

    DataUtils.CopyObjectData(inputSnippet, codeSnippet.Entity, "Id", BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Instance);

    if (!codeSnippet.Validate())
        return this.ExceptionResult("Code snippet validation failed: " + codeSnippet.ValidationErrors.ToString());

    if (!codeSnippet.Save())
        return this.ExceptionResult("Couldn't save new code snippet: " + codeSnippet.ValidationErrors.ToString());

    return ApiResult(codeSnippet.Entity);
}

Ouch. Lot of fluff if I may say so. Let’s see what the equivalent implementation would be using OpenRasta.

The configuration:

using (OpenRastaConfiguration.Manual)
{
    ResourceSpace.Has.ResourcesOfType<Snippet>().AtUri("/snippets")
        .HandledBy<SnippetHandler>()
        .AsJsonDataContract().And.AsXmlDataContract();
}

The handler:

public OperationResult Post(Snippet newSnippet)
{
    var codeSnippet = new busCodeSnippet();
    codeSnippet.NewEntity();

    DataUtils.CopyObjectData(inputSnippet, codeSnippet.Entity, "Id", BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Instance);

    if (!codeSnippet.Validate())
        return new OperationResult.BadRequest("Code snippet validation failed", codeSnippet.ValidationErrors.ToString());

    if (!codeSnippet.Save())
        return new OperationResult.InternalServerError("Couldn't save new code snippet", codeSnippet.ValidationErrors.ToString());

    return new OperationResult.OK(codeSnippet.Entity);
}

I much prefer the latter. Don’t you?

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