Begin the Implementation of a REST standard

[EmpireofKings]

I had a dream, that one day, all devices no matter their make, nor model could communicate with each other with a REST API, and/or SOAP.

You see, SOAP had its day in the sun, but as time goes on it's becoming more and more painful to maintain, and it's only real advantage is that it has multiple transport options, but in ONVIF its mostly SOAP/HTTP, so that transport advantage was never actualized.

[Player1-DON]

REST has become more industry defacto. Would be good to know the direction ONVIF is planning for future.

[zebity]

Hi @EmpireofKings

as I find it next to impossible to "read" WSDL and XML specifications and wanted simple way to talk with ONVIF devices via Restful interface, I created ONVIF-RELAY project which uses Java introspection of CXF compiled WSDLs and expose this as Restful interface.

As this is all generated code, the Restful interface is fully compliant with current ONVIF spec.

This provides way to head towards Restful future while maintaining compatability with current ONVIF WSDL based specifications.

Started as "dream" now heading to reality ;-)