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One of the newest additions to the ColdBox application templates and also the CommandBox generation templates is our REST application template.  This template will get you started with creating ColdBox RESTFul services. The best way to start with it is by downloading CommandBox, as we will use this for generation, scaffolding and as your integrated server. Then we can start working on our RESTFul service:
 

mkdir myservice
box coldbox create app skeleton=rest name=MyService --installColdBox

Once you execute these CLI commands, you will have a new RESTFul service application ready to go.  The next step is to startup an ad-hoc server and test it out:
 

box server start --rewritesEnable

This will open a browser window with the results of your first RESTFul service:
 

We are so excited to bring this month a RESTFul roadshow based on ColdBox technologies.  We will have several blog posts all month long and several live webinars from the team as well.  Below you can find a schedule of our presentations that we will be conducting live.  We will also record them and publish them in our Vimeo and YouTube channel...

ColdBox 4 introduces yet more nifty tools for RESTFul web services.  In ColdBox 4, we introduced the capability to do auto-marshaling of RESTFul body content from either JSON or XML formats.  We will take care of the defaults, nulls and incompatibility requirements.  All you have to do is use our event.getHTTPContent() method and pass the appropriate conversion argument. 

The possible conversion boolean arguments are:

• json
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