On 12/16/07, Subbu Allamaraju <subbu.allamaraju@...> wrote:
> +1
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> 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, here's a slightly different take on the same principle:
http://blog.labnotes.org/2007/12/17/dehorrible-restifying-simpledb/

Assaf

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> Subbu
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> On Dec 16, 2007, at 12:57 PM, Steve Loughran wrote:
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> > On Dec 16, 2007 5:49 PM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@...> wrote:
> >> Subbu Allamaraju wrote:
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> >>> 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!
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> >> No, it's even much Much MUCH worse -- it uses GET for non-retrieval
> >> actions.
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> > I nominate it for the 2007 Restless awards, in the much contested
> > category of
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> > "things that claim to be RESTful but do side effects in their GETs"
> > along with the ever popular
> > "SOAP endpoint in disguise" category
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> > 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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