+1

I just tried to "refactor" this API
(http://www.subbu.org/weblogs/main/2007/12/a_restful_versi.html
) to be resource oriented, and it is not that hard.

Subbu

On Dec 16, 2007, at 12:57 PM, Steve Loughran wrote:

> On Dec 16, 2007 5:49 PM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@...> wrote:
>> Subbu Allamaraju wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> This is a variant of what I call as SOAPy REST (http://subbu.
>>> org/weblogs/ main/2007/ 10/soapy_ rest.html
>>> <http://subbu.org/weblogs/main/2007/10/soapy_rest.html>
>>> ). Whoever wrote this API had no idea of why they were providing a
>>> resource centric interface. Yet another HTTP API!
>>
>> No, it's even much Much MUCH worse -- it uses GET for non-retrieval
>> actions.
>
> I nominate it for the 2007 Restless awards, in the much contested
> category of
>
> "things that claim to be RESTful but do side effects in their GETs"
> along with the ever popular
> "SOAP endpoint in disguise" category
>
> I know this mailing list has not, historically, had such awards, but
> now is as good a time to start as any....
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