olive is a a tiny framework built on top of martini for rapid development of robust REST APIs. olive handles content type negotation, serialization, deserialization, unique request-id logging and panic recovery leaving you free to write just your application's business logic. Simple example: The above API will appropriately deserialize a POST body of XML, JSON, or x-www-form-urlencoded depending on the Content-Type header. Based on the client's Accept header, the result will be serialized in either XML or JSON. Appropriate failures are returned for invalid client requests. The logger assigns a unique id to each request for easy tracing purposes: A more advanced example explaining features in detail: