I've been pondering whether or not it is OK to use PUT for a partial update of a resource. When I look at the HTTP spec it says "The PUT method requests that...
Hi guys, I was wondering if a DAP is, simply, expliciting the workflow a consumer might follow during service's consumption. I mean, something like slide #5...
Hi guys, was just wondering that. I personally think it's more HTTP-loving than RESTful; maybe I'm missing something but I don't see any hypermedia tenet in...
Dear REST enthousiasts, I am a PhD student at Multimedia Lab where we develop multimedia analysis algorithms. One of our aims is to deploy them as web...
Hi, i'm searching for a REST API description language that can validate both, XML and JSON schemas. An alternative (maybe the more extended) is WADL. It can...
Hi, i'm implementing some REST services with xml or json request/response. I would like to define the schemas of the services with WADL, but there is some...
Hi, Had a couple of quick doubts regarding REST API design. Consider a micro-blogging application like twitter where there are two users A and B. A wants to...
Hi all, I was wondering what's the best practice for telling a client he should send an If-Match header within its requests. If it GETs resource A, with an...
Hi guys, Here's a small design issues I'm not sure how to resolve. Whenever a problem happen when resolving a URI on the server, if that problem happens before...
Hi, Validating forms submitted by users and reporting back validations errors is a common requirement in HTTP web applications. POST-REDIRECT-GET is a commonly...
Hi all, I've just released a new Web API framework and I was hoping to solicit some constructive feedback on the project. The full documentation is available...
An idea that's been needling in my head for a while, just want to float it out there. This likely has been discussed before and I've just missed the thread. ...
Hi guys, I was just wondering if something I thought was the most correct way to handle ESI in a RESTful way. I'm just to represent some resources as webpages,...
Hi, I seem to keep finding myself in a position where I find it difficult to choose the "right" level of restful-ness and granularity, and how to represent...
I would like to challenge all the REST experts out there to design the standard petstore blueprint in REST. REST has been around for a while, but there doesn't...
My team is developing a RESTful API into a business collaboration application that you can think of as Facebook for business. There are users, groups, and news...
The Visibility of an interface´s properties is an important aspect to code against it. In theory i need only a single starting URL to "explore" a RESTful...
It is often stated, that RESTful services decouples client and server, as e.g. stated here [1]: "Coupling between client and server is removed, server owners...
The First Workshop on Adoption of REST and LinkedData (ARALD 2011) in conjunction with SAINT 2011 Munich, Germany (July 18-22, 2011) (The 11th IEEE/IPSJ...
Hi All, It's been asserted that the following is RESTful, so I thought it may be more beneficial to get the REST communities feedback on this particular 'REST...
Hi, In my system, a client can POST a request that contains a batch of data (yeah!). I'd like to be lenient in my processing : if I find both invalid data...
Hi All, I know the theoritical benifits of REST Services. What I want to know in particular is What are the motivations for migrating services to REST approach...
... When I go to that page, I see not even a clue about the nature of the interface, other than that I'll need the out-of-band knowledge of some query language...
Hello, (it seems that my email from my mail client didn't find the way to the list - so this is another try) I asked this question already on a platform that...
Hello everyone, One of my colleagues has been working on implementing client side HTTP caching on a open source project of ours. He's had a hard time finding...
Dear members, Right now, I'm currently involved in a research to find the best practices to design and implement RESTful application using Restlet framework. ...
Hi, regarding: "a resource R is a temporally varying membership function MR(t), which for time t maps to a set of entities, or values, which are equivalent....
Dear All, In my application, there are a kind of ticket resources (URI: /tickets/{ticket-id}), and the ticket behaves like a state machine (status: pending ->...
Reading this bit of rfc 2616... 10.2.2 201 Created The request has been fulfilled and resulted in a new resource being created. The newly created resource can...
I'm designing the interface of a system that stores and indexes documents (word docs etc). My intention is that the service should be human readable as well...
