I think the first time I saw this pattern in Jon Moore's oredev talk on Hypermedia APIs. In his demo he replaced links to subresources with their full...
Hi, I was reading this guideline [1] about resource identifiers and I'm not sure how a client would be able to navigate to the resource just having the entry...
hi all I use Post to create a object under the collection and Put to modify the object. My question is the xml content in Post and Put should be consistence...
In reading the literature on RESTful interfaces, I've noticed that some people use Extended (or non-standard) HTTP Headers. Interface versioning seems to be...
How to model resource creation for the following scenario: Assume that we have a parent resource (R) and it has many sub-resources (SR1, SR2, .., SRN). The...
Hi guys, in these days I'm writing an API consumer for a RoR-powered webservice, which uses 422 status code (from WebDav) in HTTP responses. Here's an...
Dear list members, I am currently working on my Master's thesis at the University of Hagen. The goal of my thesis is the development of a graphical modeling...
I have a web application that has many web services and an AJAX web client as well as some mobile clients. I won't call them RESTful web services, but I'm...
Its pretty well known how to do a quick pub/sub with atom pub. If we get loads and loads of consumers though it might be beneficial to say hang a http...
Dear REST enthousiast, Do you think there’s a joint future for Services and the Semantic Web? Or is your opinion that they’ll never work together? Either...
Hi, for my bachelor thesis[1] (reusable components in multi MediaType rest applications) I invented a way to hide the details of the Resource Representation...
Hi, I'm searching a java rest framework or JAX-RS implementation that allows me to configure the dispatcher at runtime through an API. In JAX-RS it is only ...
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...
