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RESTful API runtime discoverability / HATEOAS client design

For a SaaS startup I'm involved in, I am building both a RESTful web API and a couple of client apps on different platforms that consume it. I think I've got the API figured out, but now I'm turning to the clients. As I've been reading about REST,…
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Determine if an app exists and launch that app on iOS

Is there a way to check iOS to see if another app has been installed and then launched? If memory serves me this was not possible in early versions but has this been changed?
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any way to discover Android devices on your network?

I want to be able to discover Android devices on my network and possibly retrieve some device information about them. This is very easy with Apple devices since they run Bonjour services. However, I can't seem to find any similar service running…
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Python unittest and discovery

I have directories, which contain files named like: test_foo.py Each file is a test case. I would like to Run all the tests in a directory from the command line. I am using unittest2, since we are running Python 2.5.1. From one of these directories…
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How to periodically scan for bluetooth devices on android

Hi this may sound as a stupid question.But I was unable to find any answers for this, thus posting here. I am building an indoor application which continuously scans the bluetooth dongles located at different locations in a place like a mall or…
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How do I discover RESTful Web services?

When I want to find a "Big" Web service (WS-*/WSDL based) of required functionality I can simply google for ".... filetype:wsdl" because Google indexes also WSDL definitions. Or I can simply use some registries that already crawled the Web for WSDL…
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Find IP address of directly connected device

Is there a way to find out the IP address of a device that is directly connected to a specific ethernet interface? I.e. given one host, one wired ethernet connection and one second host connected to this wired connection, which layer or protocol…
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Android, NSD/DNS-SD: NsdManager unreliable discovery and IP resolution

In the course of the last weeks, Android's NSD implementation is making me go mad: From a user's point of view, the following problems arise: Devices discover each other in a completely non-deterministic fashion. If I launch my NsdManager-based…
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How can Android broadcast BLE local name like in iOS?

I've got an Android app advertising ble broadcast data with a service uuid and local name. The problem is that this "local name" (aka bluetooth device name) is limited to 8 characters, each is a 16-bit unicode representation, thus 2-bytes per…
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WCF Discovery simply doesn't work

I'm trying to add ad-hoc discovery to a simple WCF service-client setup (currently implemented by self hosting in a console app). Debugging using VS2010 on windows 7, and doing whatever I can find in online tutorial, but still - the discovery client…
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Network discovery in Java using multicasting

I'm trying to make a client/server Java App. Both client and server will be running on the same wi-fi network. Server will be running on a specific port that client is aware of. I am planning to send a multicast message from client through the…
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any way to detect iPads or iPhones on wireless network? bonjour?

I am trying to detect Apple devices connected to a wireless network. This is relatively simple using Bonjour, however I am also trying to detect what kind of device it is. Like, a MacBook Air, a MacBook Pro, a MacPro, an iPhone, iPod, or an…
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Network discovery in android

I want to discover all devices (host name, MAC address and vendor name) connected to my Wifi network through an android phone. There are no common services running on the devices. Tried the following methods: Pinging all IPs in the subnet takes too…
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Bluetooth -> service discovery failed

I'm writing an application that is able to communicate with my PC. I have used the Bluetooth functionalities of the SDK 2.1. I can find devices, get their MAC address, create an RFCOMM socket, but when I start the connection, I get the following…
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What is the best way to implement device discovery on a LAN

I have little experience in network programming and I am writing a multi platform system which requires each device to be able to find other devices within the same LAN. I am looking for the right approach to do that, and hope that people here can…
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