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Re:FastAPI – Easily create robust, standardized API endpoint... by keithwhor on Monday July 28, 2014 @02:29PM (#8098515)
The goal of this project is for easy model accession / querying via JavaScript or some other external interface. The most powerful part of this implementation, I would argue, is the filtering of endpoint data via request.query_parameters.

This allows for "people/?age__gte=25" and other simple logic filters that can be communicated over the HTTP request, and is standard across all models and endpoints.

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Re:FastAPI – Easily create robust, standardized API endpoint... by jerhinesmith on Monday July 28, 2014 @02:34PM (#8098535)
Couldn't you easily accomplish the same thing via the ransack gem?

https://github.com/activerecord-hackery/ransack/wiki/Basic-S...

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Re:FastAPI – Easily create robust, standardized API endpoint... by keithwhor on Monday July 28, 2014 @02:40PM (#8098576)
Yes, I'm sure you could --- in combination with ActiveModel::Serializer.

Our approach was meant to attack a combination of common, specific problems (standardized way to output API data, queryable with logic via HTTP parameters, a single SQL query to collect and aggregate data) with a dead simple, low-overhead solution.

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