RestFS: resources and services are filesystems, too

Authors:
Joe Kaylor;Konstantin Läufer;George K. Thiruvathukal
Affiliations:
Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL;Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL;Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL
Venue:
Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on RESTful Design
Year:
2011

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Abstract

We have designed and implemented RestFS, a software framework that provides a uniform, configurable connector layer for mapping remote web-based resources to local filesystem-based resources, recognizing the similarity between these two types of resources. Such mappings enable programmatic access to a resource, as well as composition of two or more resources, through the local operating system's standard filesystem application programming interface (API), scriptable file-based command-line utilities, and inter-process communication (IPC) mechanisms. The framework supports automatic and manual authentication. We include several examples intended to show the utility and practicality of our framework.