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Rest.li is an open source REST framework for building robust, scalable RESTful architectures using type-safe bindings and asynchronous, non-blocking IO. Rest.li fills a niche for applying RESTful principals at scale with an end-to-end developer workflow for buildings REST APIs that promotes clean REST practices, uniform interface design and consistent data modeling.

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Features

End-to-end framework for building RESTful APIs
Approachable APIs for writing non-blocking client and server code using ParSeq
Type-safe development using generated data and client bindings
JAX-RS inspired annotation driven server side resource development
Engineered and battle tested for high scalability and high availability
Optional Dynamic Discovery subsystem adds client side load balancing and fault tolerance
Backward compatibility checking to ensure all API changes are safe
Support for batch operations, partial updates and projections
Web UI for for browsing and searching a catelog of rest.li APIs.

Website

http://rest.li

Community

Discussion Group: Linkedin Rest.li Group
Follow us on twitter: @rest_li
Issue Tracking: github issue tracking

Using Rest.li JARs

If you are not modifying the rest.li source code, you don't need to build rest.li. You can simply depend on the artifacts in the maven central repository. The current latest version in Maven Central is 1.15.9.

To build from source, please see this page.

Quickstart Guides and Examples

Quickstart Guide - a step-by-step tutorial on the basics

Design Principles

Promote uniform interfaces through consistent data modeling and REST conventions
Seamlessly integrate a JSON serializable data layer including a data schema language and generated language bindings
Provide published interface definitions, generated from server code
Make calling services dead simple with generated type-safe client bindings
Versioning with automated compatibility checking
Simple asynchronous API
Dynamic discovery with load balancing