Hello all,
I have a design question for those who are more familiar with the REST
style.
Here are the resources I've identified in my sample app:
person
location
A person has a location. How should I move an existing person to an existing
location?
Originally I did a POST on location like so:
curl -d "bob" -H "Content-Type: text/plain" -X POST http://localhost:8182/location/virginia
This says move person "bob" to location virginia.
Now I'm thinking it would be more "resource-ful" to PUT the person
with the updated location?
Appreciate your thoughts,
Chris
[Thanks MB for the subject head's up]
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Chris Grindstaff | http://gstaff.org
Hello all, I have a design question for those who are more familiar with the REST style. Here are the resources I've identified in my sample app: person ...
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Eric J. Bowman
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Nov 10, 2006 7:57 am
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