I had a few hours to spend on F# and I wanted to do an application using the Xbox Music API. The documentation is here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn546696.aspx. I think the structure of that page is messy since it invites you to start at "Getting Started", but really the best place to start is "Using the xbox restful services". So, what is REST? I found a nice description here http://martinfowler.com/articles/richardsonMaturityModel.html that basically sums to rest being proper use of resources, HTTP Verbs and "hypermedia controls" which is short for navigation hints. Hopefully I will find some more time soon to actually build something useful with this API and F#.
In the end I got it working. Microsoft uses a service to provide a token and you must then use the token to query xbox music. I spend some time failing because some of my secret keys and the token needed to be URL encoded before being passed in the request. In F# it is easy to URL encode using a .NET module, I think it was in something like System.Web.HttpUtilies.URLencode.
In the end I got it working. Microsoft uses a service to provide a token and you must then use the token to query xbox music. I spend some time failing because some of my secret keys and the token needed to be URL encoded before being passed in the request. In F# it is easy to URL encode using a .NET module, I think it was in something like System.Web.HttpUtilies.URLencode.
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