General discussion about REpresentational State Transfer, the name given to the architectural style which describes the best behaved subset of the World Wide Web (circa 1993), as determined by Roy Fielding.
I'm curious as to others' experience in wrapping data with hyperlinks. In my case, I am to write a gateway that provides access to documents of a XML schema
I worked on one project where the OPTIONS call returned documentation for that URI. This document detailed the methods, accept-types (GET), content-types (POST
I'll certainly admit to my thinking being influenced by past schema-driven projects. I suppose I've also been thinking of GET/PUT formats being the same as a
Hey Jim, ... A form (POST) that accepts only the values that represent the state of the resource is one way to make it explicit (sigh... if only I could say
Ah. That makes a lot of sense, but I don't think I've seen it expressed that way before. Are there content-type definitions that make that explicit? (I suppose