In a previous post – First Steps with RestLet 1.1RC2 in JDeveloper 11g – restful services 101 – I introduced RestLet and how to use it for creating very simple RestFul services in JDeveloper 11g. This contribution takes things a little further: the things and thing service discussed in the prior article only support read only operations: GET requests. In this article, we will add the ability to create and update things.

Since creation is done based on simple HTTP request of type POST, all we need for a Thing Create Client is a static HTML page with form that posts to the /things url of our RestFul service. The post request should contain the properties of the new thing we want to have created. It is up to the RestFul service to handle the post request. More specifically: the ThingsResource class will take on the Post request sent to the /things service and try to create a new thing based on it. (more…)