API auto-discovery ? about ng-admin HOT 9 CLOSED

I think this could be a layer on top of the current development. We need a way to describe an admin backend programmatically first, then we can build adapters based on API discovery in a second step.

Also, HATEOAS is not very common in actual APIs (because not many clients use it).

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Some food for thought... I think it would be super cool to be able to configure entities automagically off of a JSON Schema document (http://json-schema.org). There's a front end project that attempts to build forms out of JSON Schema here https://github.com/jdorn/json-editor that shows you a little why this came to my mind. JSON Schema is nice because it doesn't require a valid piece of data, (like object/1 might) or an empty node to generate and it's extremely flexible. KnpLabs started to work on a bundle to generate JSON Schema right from Doctrine entities, I've got this forked and working with the latest version of Symfony 2 here https://github.com/stanlemon/KnpJsonSchemaBundle Something like this could be used to generate JSON Schema that could then feed into ng-admin, which would be pretty epic IMO. One limitation or struggle I see is that JSON Schema is not terribly explicit about relationships. Objects can be nested, but the cross referencing, to the best of my knowledge, is not something well defined. I suspect there are ways around this, or conventions that could be assumed when using your project.

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Btw... AWESOME project! I'm really stoked about this and the potential.

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Wow, very interesting project and I would definitely be interested in trying to add support for Hydra. What would be the best approach to do so? Or does it make more sense to wait till the project stabilizes a bit?

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For reference, heroku use json schema to describe its api, and auto generate doc, client lib etc. I think this model well fits ng-admin.

https://github.com/interagent/prmd
https://github.com/interagent/heroics

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Very interested to work on hydra support too!
I was designing a very similar project (hydra admin generator in Angular).

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It would be awesome if you could just dump a raml specification in and it would generate the whole administration for it. 👍

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For Symfony, there is https://github.com/marmelab/NgAdminGeneratorBundle. Anyway, I don't think it's the purpose of ng-admin to do that, so I'm closing the issue.

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👍 on having this kind of feature built on top of ng-admin as extensions, not bolted on. There are quite a few different mechanisms for describing APIs. Beyond those mentioned, I would add RestfulObjects and Kirra (which I develop). All I would expect from ng-admin itself is that it works well in use cases where the back-end API neeeds to be described dynamically.

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