ml/hydra-console

HydraConsole is a generic API console for Hydra-powered Web APIs

HydraConsole

Hydra is a lightweight vocabulary to create hypermedia-driven Web APIs. By specifying a number of commonly used concepts it renders the creation of generic API clients possible. The HydraConsole is such a generic API client in the form of a single-page web application., _(*1)

For a high level description of how the HydraConsole works, please refer to my dissertation Third Generation Web APIs—Bridging the Gap between REST and Linked Data., _(*2)

Installation

At the moment, the HydraConsole uses a JSON-LD Processor and a proxy written in PHP to access and process responses of Web APIs. Thus, the simplest way to install the HydraConsole is to use [Composer][4]., _(*3)

If you don't have Composer yet, download it following the instructions on http://getcomposer.org/ or just run the following command:, _(*4)

curl -s http://getcomposer.org/installer | php

Then, use Composer's create-project command to download the HydraConsole and install all it's dependencies:, _(*5)

php composer.phar create-project -s dev ml/hydra-console path/to/install

You can now serve the HydraConsole with PHP's built-in web server:, _(*6)

php -S localhost:8000 -t path/to/install

That's it. Just fire up your browser and point it to, _(*7)

http://localhost:8000

Collaboration

To participate in the development please file bugs and issues in the issue tracker or submit pull requests. If there's enough interest I'll create a dedicated mailing list in the future., _(*8)

You can find more information about Hydra and a demo installation of the HydraConsole on my homepage: http://www.markus-lanthaler.com/hydra/, _(*9)