Reality check re the REA model: I was one of the people who tried to define that as a standard format at least for B2B interactions. I worked on this issue...
Bob Haugen
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Dec 1, 2008 2:04 pm
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... http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=40348 ... All too true. Thanks for the reality check. Though my point in...
I am working on a new resource-oriented library for ASP.NET MVC. The motivation is to create an API centered around strongly typed URIs, Resources and links...
... Actually, identifiers have probably been more successfully standardized than any of the other pieces of that puzzle via UPC bar codes. I think there's a...
Thanks for the responses. Here are more details - My scenario is the following: I have a provisioning API which lets each application register with the...
... have in mind though? I ask because using fragments such as "not too neutral" seems to indicate there might be an issue with the chosen word to begin with....
I guess the other question (ignoring for the moment whether "application neutral" is a felicitous phrase) is: how neutral is it, really? For example, if you...
Bob Haugen
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Dec 2, 2008 3:13 am
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... identifiers". (I am ignoring generic protocol operations since that is same as saying "uniform interface"). What do you mean by "generic identifiers" in ...
... Oh yes, its going to take a long while. Look how many decades its taken to go from umpteen network architectures to IP! This is hard work. But it is what...
Sorry for top-posting, seemed to be appropriate in this case. Nick, you did not respond to my point below, just seemed to agree that "it's going to take a long...
Bob Haugen
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Dec 2, 2008 12:23 pm
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... Yes and removing the extension would still make it a valid Atom entry. However, the specific application that you might submit it to would reject it,...
... I was there too. I don't agree it's a dangerous path given Atom's processing model. It becomes a problem when you break that model (eg, these new elements...
... I wouldn't recommend that approach. It makes systems unpredictable and needlessly complicated (forced upgrades on clients or legacy switching on servers)....
... But that is self-contradictory. Extensions are optional, and so, apps can't reject documents with/without extensions. Using a media type would at least...
... Lovely... my ideas are as popular as ever! :) Smiling aside. How is this different than a server that allows you to upload XHTML documents, but only if...
... If someone were to rely on media-types to capture these constraints and the application evolves, should the media-type be versioned? - Steve ... Steve G....
... I think these are different. Applications can reject data for a variety of reasons. But missing extensions should not be a reason for that. For instance,...
Hi Nick, Thanks for elaborating. ... There are two things here. One is an identifier a la atom:id, whose purpose is to uniquely identify the resource and...
In our application, the server is capable returning either JSON or XML. JSON is the default. Now, if we want to access a resource, what is the best way the...
... ramsub4> In our application, the server is capable returning either ramsub4> JSON or XML. JSON is the default. Now, if we want to access ramsub4> a...
... I think that the optimal is having both kinds. There are cases when you cannot use the accept header. -- Lawrence, www.neropercaso.it - oluyede.org "It is...
... Firstly, the client isn't going to know the URI until it receives the representation that contains the reference to it, so whatever URI is most convenient...
I've had an idea floated past me that I would like to get feedback on. I suspect that many people come to [rest-discuss] with the hope of on- boarding their...
... Yeah, as you know from our twitter discussions I think this would be a very useful idea. At the moment getting your head around REST is quite difficult...
Initially, rest-discuss was for beginners, and we had rest-advanced for advanced topics. That never caught on though, and I expect rest-beginners would see a...
... Normally I would think 2 forums would be counter-productive but as someone whose been monitoring this forum for a few months (maybe more) I'm really not...