digitallyinduced
Allow defining rest API endpoints (with Swagger/OpenAPI)
Being able to define simple GET/PUT/POST/PATCH/DELETE endpoints with JSON data is a common use case for a modern back end web framework – if not the most common. It surprised me to find that IHP has no official support for it at all. This limits its usability to cases where I know I'll only ever have a simple web front end and not, say, a native phone app. It makes it hard for me to commit to this framework as a Haskell beginner, not knowing if I'll be able to use it for one of my basic requirements.
Please consider adding built in support for rest API endpoints. As a second step, generating a Swagger/OpenAPI schema would be very useful for ease of development.
Notes:
- The section on JSON responses in the documentation should be enough to cover GET endpoints if I understand it correctly.
- This question (#506) refers to additional documentation.
The good news it that there's support for this use case, it's just not well documented as the documentation so far focusses a lot on full stack applications. But I agree that we improved this.
