We're building what will hopefully be a fairly RESTful API with hyperlinked resources and collection resources representing one to many relationships. The...
Hi guys, I'm currently developing an HTTP interface (can't dare to call it REST) for a few clients and I have a question for y'all. I have a resource,...
Hello, I have a real-life web service I can't see how to make an effective RESTful API for. We have a web application for system administrators that helps...
Hi everybody, I am one of the persons who developed the XWiki's REST API, an Opensource enterprise wiki (http://www.xwiki.org). We tried to engineer it as much...
Hi, how do I decide whether a URI is bookmarkable or not? ('Bookmarkable' meaning: 'Being an entry point into an application that is worth remembering') Some...
Hi everyone, I wonder which, if any, best practices there are regarding the use of trailing slashes in resource URL:s in REST services? I realize and basically...
** cross-posted ** I'm contemplating a working definition for a "Hypermedia Client." Here are my first attempts: 1 - "A Hypermedia Client supports advancing...
Hi, I often use the (common) pattern of exposing a "factory" resource that we POST to for creating other resources of a certain type. In some systems I also...
Ganesh Prasad posted a blog titled "Does Redis Undermine a Key REST Tenet?" <http://wisdomofganesh.blogspot.com/2011/09/does-redis-undermine-key-res\ ...
Based on conversations over at InfoQ, ... are there standards for link representations? Its common to use link-rel in a XML/HTML/ATOM vocabulary, but is that a...
I see a lot of advantages to using XHTML as a media type of choice for my REST services. Speaking in terms of Mike Amundsen's H-Factors, it covers quite a...
Hi all, I'm at the URI design stage of my API and wanted to check whether this is RESTful or not. For example, if we have: /api/v1/customers - List of...
I just wondered why there is no "item" relation (ore something similar) registered at [1] with the semantics of "this is an item of this collection resource"....
In (a follow-on comment to his own) blog post [1], Roy stated: "Don't confuse application state (the state of the user's application of computing to a given...
We're hoping to support versioning in our API through media types[1] and I just want to clarify how this would work in practice. Whereas URIs are generated by...
Hi, can anyone point me to a RESTful equivalent (in Java, too) of something like Apache Wicket or JSF? 'Equivalent' in terms of maturity and rapid development....
I need to update a single field of a resource and I think to PUT the new field value in the URL parameter leaving empty request body. Is it an acceptable...
... or doesn't it matter? The consensus would seem to be to for the former (use cases + view models). On the other hand, all representations have a media...
Hi, human targeted Web sites somtimes (or usually?) adjust the representations they send based on their knowledge about the abilities of the user agents (e.g....
Hi Folks, I'm looking for a Java library which can evaluate a URI against a given URI template. What would you recommend? Basically I need to check whether a...
For JSON representations (where the intent is to indicate in-band to a client how to process that representation) what's is current thinking on: a) using a...
Hi, I am trying to learn about REST but I was recently asked what ensures scalability when we use REST principles. It did not seem obvious to me but the answer...
While thinking about documentation for the API we're working on one of our team suggested building a REST API to document the REST API. Resources in the...
Hi, Â Â Â I am timing the RTT (round trip time) of a POST to an internet based RESTlet. Two files are involved - a small one (entity body of 231 bytes) and a...
Hi! This is my first post on the list.. I'm iplementing a RESTful web service for simple CRUD stuff etc.. I would like to use some Oauth provider (for instance...
First many thanks to all who answered my previous qry: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/message/17741 all your comments were most helpful....
Hi, I'm new to REST and have a quick query: Most of the literature i've read about RESTful design warns against using any sort of sessions. I've always used...
[I've been redirected here from www-talk] Hi Everyone, I'm searching for a correct solution (not violating the HTTP protocol and causing least possible...
In different resources on the web, i found different opinions about URI Templating. Some say, they are coupling clients and server (e.g. Erik Wilde). Some...
