RareRest

[TheNitesWhoSay]

Add another library to RareCpp for REST - using annotation driven methods as endpoints; e.g. in a controller class you might have an update method

    NOTE(update,
        Rest::Method::PATCH,
        Rest::Url{"/update/{value}/{otherValue}"},
        Rest::PathParam<int>{"value"},
        Rest::PathParam<long>{"otherValue"})
    std::string update(int value, long otherValue) {
        this->value = value;
        this->otherValue = otherValue;
        this->status = Status::Cached;
        return "";
    }

Preliminary thoughts on the separate pieces:

Rest::Glass: Everything that necessarily appears in client code (method markup, potentially marking as controller, controller registration if not automatic)
Rest::Controller: Controllers contain one or more methods marked up for REST; controllers must be somehow registered to the engine
Rest::Inpoint: A function within a controller which represents a REST endpoint; with annotations defining the http method, URL component, and parameters
Rest::Engine: That to which the driver registers itself and to which controllers get registered, when an endpoint is hit the driver shall send data to the engine, which shall serialize the data as the appropriate C++ types based on the settings in the controller, then call the appropriate Rest::Inpoint function within the controller
Rest::Driver: The generalized template for system-specific networking code as well as common driver helper methods
MyDriver : Rest::Driver: System-specific networking code