Musings on an API

dealerships_resource.rb

class DealershipsResource < Webmachine::Resource

  def encodings_provided
    {"gzip" => :encode_gzip, "identity" => :encode_identity}
  end

  def allowed_methods
    %W[GET]
  end

  def generate_etag
    Digest::MD5.hexdigest(Time.now.utc.to_i.to_s + request.body.to_s)
  end
  
  # See https://github.com/seancribbs/webmachine-ruby/blob/master/lib/webmachine/resource/callbacks.rb#L28
  def is_authorized?(authorization_header = nil)
    true
  end

  def languages_provided
    ["en-us"]
  end

  def resource_exists?
    true
  end

  def content_types_provided
    [['text/csv', :to_csv], ['application/xml', :to_xml], ['text/html', :to_html]]
  end

  def to_csv
    # Return representation of this resource as CSV
  end

  def to_xml
    # Return representation of this resource as XML
  end

  def to_html
    # Return representation of this resource as HTML
  end

end