RESTful resources¶

RESTful resource are defined by using & as a prefix. The resources can be used to load data into data sections.

In the following example the resource named ‘db’ is configured with a wikipedia api hostname. The ZML implementation loads the JSON data from the path /w/api.php?action=query&list=search&format=json&srsearch=rest. The JSON will be converted and is accessible by using the ‘pages’ context variable.

%import components
%inherit base

@db: 'en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&format=json&srsearch=rest'

#pages: @db

*content:
  %for p in pages.query.search:
    p: '{p.title}'

The rendered result:

<html>
  <head>
    <title>zml</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <p>Rest
    </p>
    <p>Representational state transfer
    </p>
    <p>ReStructuredText
    </p>
    <p>Rest (music)
    </p>
    <p>Rest in peace
    </p>
    <p>The Rest
    </p>
    <p>Bed rest
    </p>
    <p>Ain't No Rest for the Wicked
    </p>
    <p>Rabbit at Rest
    </p>
    <p>The Rest of the Story
    </p>
  </body>
</html>