... [snip] ... I'm working on a project in which we faced a similar challenge. The URIs we launched the project with follow your /users/100 and /photos/201...
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Griffin Caprio ... no, its worse than that. Historically, it's choice of action depended on the extension of the remote URL....
Hi there, I'm trying to find an elegant way of processing the URI so that it follows RESTful ideas and allows me to make changes in the future. From what I...
Hi, I just thought that I would ping the group to let you know that I have started giving a talk on the new ASP.NET MVC Framework in which I reference REST: ...
... Yes: it’s a good thing to do. URI as *U*I has very different concerns from URI as *AP*I; the former is desirable, the latter is anything but. Regards, --...
... I have discovered an interesting side-effect of a RESTful design. I have a digital asset management tool for which I created a simple search syntax, based...
I am happy to announce the immediate availability of WizTools.org RESTClient 2.1 version: http://rest-client.googlecode.com/ This release focuses on usability...
Here's a common scenario that I've never fully understood how to model RESTfully. I've got articles in the system, and when I first add them they're in draft...
... Alternatively, you could PUT /articles/1/mode (the state of which is either "draft" or "published") Because that is literally what you are doing, changing...
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... Hey Bob, That makes sense. It leaves me with another question though. In my implementation, I prefer to have methods like article.setPublished, ...
... What you do on the server behind the URIs is your business. But REST is the acronym for REpresentational State Transfer, so yeah, it's about...
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small thing, i guess but PUT /publish/1 tells me to "PUT article 1 in publish mode" PUT /articles/1/publish tell me to "PUT publish to article 1" see my...
But that looks like a method-oriented URI and not a resource-oriented URI. For example, what would GET /publish/1 mean? Or am I misunderstanding your snippets...
*ah!* yep - would be better to put that "state" in the body of the PUT to /articles/1. MikeA On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Subbu Allamaraju ... -- mca ...
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Subbu Allamaraju ... On the other hand GET/article/1/mode is clear. It's either "draft" or "published" or "deprecated" or...
To paraphrase Woody Allen: "Everything you always wanted to know about HTTP headers status, but were afraid to ask" Alternatively: "An activity diagram to...
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Rick Jeliffe just posted a blog entry entitled "Objects at REST" on xml.com, found here: http://tinyurl.com/2oqrzm where he proposes exposing objects using...
... I guess thinking about resources as objects and verbs as methods is already within the boundaries of the REST architecture. What do you mean specifically? ...
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Andrzej Jan Taramina ... I'm not sure it's a bad thing, but it does tend to shift the focus of REST from a web of resources to...
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Andrzej Jan Taramina ... I'm currently writing a Java framework to do something similar to this. Exposing objects directly to...
No, I don't agree with equating them. Their similarities are far less than there differences. First, REST is about representations and stateless protocols for...
... Distributed objects have been tried and failed numerous times before now. Sprinkling REST pixie dust on this bad idea won't magically make it work this...
Steve: Brillant analysis of what I was trying to get at. Thanks! ... I absolutely agree with this. ... To clarify your comment, which I agree with, REST might...
... That's the start of a very slippery slope. You're basically encouraging the OO folks to tunnel RPC over HTTP. I think we've had enough discussions of why...