Hi, I'm trying to create a list of formats with native hypermedia support (HTTP) that goes beyond just links supporting a GET.. So far my list is quite short ...
Jorn: Erik's list is a good start: - supply defaults - provide a range (select) - indicate whether to show to a human (hidden) - indicate mutability (disabled...
The API I'm building seems to need several types of collections and I think I've identified at least 3: 1) Collections of all the resource of a type (for...
There was a discussion here some weeks ago about the use of forms in REST services. Since then I have been wondering about how much such a form tells my...
Idempotent operations are good for various reasons - for instance to avoid multiple creation of the same resource in the face of network errors. But how is it...
Hello folks, this is my first post in rest-discuss, so please bear with me. I get the benefits of changing link uris, but that's really not what this post is...
Hi all, Â Â Â Â I have a presentation coming up and want to make the case for the shift in the enterprise from WS-* to REST. Points on my slide are: * Google...
As a subscriber of this 'meme' Craig mentioned, I'll give a few of the reasons using a generic media type is the better option: - they avoid you having to...
Hi all, At the W3C we have developed a protocol called WebID which allows RESTful authentication using only well established standards. It is designed to be...
Thanks a lot. Today's daily digest got clipped by Gmail (not a big deal, but a sign of excess). And very little of it was new content, mostly just top-posting...
Hello, My name is Dan Maharry. I am the articles editor at developerfusion.com. A member of this group has written me the first of a two part article entitled...
Hi folks. I hope you had a nice christmas with you friends and families - and are ready for yet a season of Rest-Discus :-) Sorry for bringing up an old issue;...
Allow me to try a debate that is a bit more opiniated than my normal posts: REST will never get any break-through in M2M scenarios due to it's complete lack of...
If "REST is not about domain models" (as Glenn Block states it here: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/message/18117) how are we then going to...
Hi, say I've a server-site addressbook collection (/contacts) referencing individual contacts. I can mirror this collection to my laptop. Later I want to come...
Hi, one may wonder, why so many developers don't "get" REST and do countless RPC- over-HTTP APIs and what could be done to advance REST. I've one idea. First...
Likely more an HTTP question, but: If a client sends an entity to be replaced (PUT), does the server may interfere with the entity and e.g. add hypermedia...
Hello! I just released a RESTful API I have been working on for some time and I would love to get your feedback on it. The main goal for me was to make this...
I am at the beginning of a project where we need a web/http-based API for reading and creating complex objects (more on that later). Right now I need to decide...
We all know, many APIs and some frameworks* labelled with the term "REST", do not support hypermedia (or less so called RESTful) mechanisms. The term is (and...
Lets assume I have proprietary XML format for a "dossier". Now I want to add links to documents and involved parties. I can do: <Dossier> <Link rel="document"...
Hey everyone! I just wanted to draw attention to the discussion here: https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/505 While the pull request is originally from May,...
Some thoughts along vaguely similar lines - http://www.mnot.net/blog/2011/08/28/better_browser_caching Cheers, ... -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/...
Hi, While we can use REST for CRUD operations, I wonder how it can be used for maintenance operations such as Backup/Restore and Upgrade. These are time ...
Hope this isn't off-topic: Is anyone using something like WADL for service definition documentation? We're (hopefully) going to have a collection of many...
Several times i came to the question, wheter to specify a relation with some kind of index to distinct links of the same relationship type. examples: GET...
WS-REST 2012 - Call for Papers Abstract Submission Deadline: *3. February 2012* http://ws-rest.org/2012/cfp The Third International Workshop on RESTful Design...
