which only proves that doing good REST is as easy as bad REST. The
trouble is that the "action-oriented" mindset maps very well into SOAP
and not REST.

This brings up another question. Why do people want to provide both
SOAP and REST interfaces? When they decide to do, do they want to use
the same code base to process the requests? I can see lots of issues.
Has anyone on this list got experience doing both for the same
application?

Subbu

On Dec 17, 2007, at 10:15 AM, Assaf Arkin wrote:

> On 12/17/07, Subbu Allamaraju <subbu.allamaraju@...> wrote:
>> That was quick :)
>
> It was surprisingly easy, couple of hours.
>
> Assaf
>
>>
>> Great.
>>
>> Subbu
>>
>> On Dec 17, 2007, at 1:59 AM, Assaf Arkin wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/16/07, Subbu Allamaraju <subbu.allamaraju@...> wrote:
>>>> +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, here's a slightly different take on the same principle:
>>> http://blog.labnotes.org/2007/12/17/dehorrible-restifying-simpledb/
>>>
>>> Assaf
>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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....
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yahoo! Groups Links
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yahoo! Groups Links
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