REST API

GridGain REST API supports external connectivity to GridGain via REST over HTTP. It comes in handy whenever GridGain Java API is not available directly, but it is still needed to execute GridGain tasks or retrieve cached data. For example, you can conveniently use GridGain REST API over HTTP from other non-JVM languages, such as Ruby, PHP or Python, or any other language, whenever local instance of GridGain is not available.

Note that PHP REST example is included with GridGain distribution.

All REST HTTP commands have the following format: http://1.2.3.4:8080/gridgain?cmd=CMD&..., where 'cmd' is the name of the command followed by other command parameters. Every command may have different parameters, some of which may be mandatory and some optional. The commands parameters may be passed either via HTTP GET or POST, whichever one is preferred.