... Looks good and most useful, is it worth mentioning anywhere that this inverse relations(describes being the inverse of describedby) is now needed due to...
dear link-relations experts, this is a request to register 'describes' in the IANA link relations registry established by RFC 5988. the latest draft of the...
... being recompiled every morning. Maybe this is not a good thing. Think about how much our compilers would have to be! ... -- Le doute n'est pas une...
... Yes indeed. But media types /= data types. The web works fine without being recompiled every morning. ... I am not arguing against that this is good...
... An analogy may be your signs in the windows of your local shops, if one of them moves to a new premise, they could say nothing, or they could say "we've...
... It's Representational State Transfer, you transfer the state of a resource through a representation of it. The entire thing is hinged on transferring...
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Eric J. Bowman
eric@...
Oct 8, 2012 11:03 am
... No, it isn't. Does the system work with the new URLs? Then it isn't dependent on the old ones. Are they supported for user convenience? That would be...
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Eric J. Bowman
eric@...
Oct 8, 2012 10:49 am
... Wow, no, that isn't what Roy meant at all. An example of a server not controlling its own namespace, is one which must for one reason or another support...
... I mean coupling in the sense of dependencies. Dependencies that lead to developers having to implement code in the server to maintain URI:s. As Steve...
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Steve Klabnik
steve@...
Oct 7, 2012 7:47 pm
... It is an incredibly clear violation of servers controlling their own namespace. Seriously. I don't even know why this is contentious. ... ...
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Eric J. Bowman
eric@...
Oct 7, 2012 4:22 pm
... Maintaining obsolete URIs is not an example of "coupling"; as applies to REST. REST isn't "decoupled" but rather, "loosely coupled" around standardized...
Hi, ... I mean that *forcing* a server to commit itself to maintaining URI:s is coupling. I say that that the server has no such obligation. A polite server...
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Eric J. Bowman
eric@...
Oct 6, 2012 8:12 pm
... How does one say this? Surely not rel='bookmark', which has a different meaning entirely? If you have a series of steps for a user to complete, and it's...
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Eric J. Bowman
eric@...
Oct 6, 2012 8:11 pm
... How is this coupling? I take over a website for a client, change the URI allocation scheme, then set up redirection on UltraDNS. Since REST is a layered...
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Eric J. Bowman
eric@...
Oct 6, 2012 8:11 pm
... This notion of 'entry points' is a common misconception about REST. The 'bookmark' relation is not a declaration of status. Every representation in a REST...
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Eric J. Bowman
eric@...
Oct 6, 2012 8:10 pm
... Not as cheap as obsoleting them. The number-one ongoing maintenance issue for any Web Developer shop, is external links. My biggest gripe over the years...
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Eric J. Bowman
eric@...
Oct 6, 2012 8:09 pm
... No way. If I merge one article into another, what do I do with the old URI? HTTP has no semantics of "has been merged" and clearly redirection would...
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Eric J. Bowman
eric@...
Oct 6, 2012 8:09 pm
... I have no idea where participants in this thread are getting this notion. In the case of an excerpt of one document appearing in another, rel='bookmark'...
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Eric J. Bowman
eric@...
Oct 6, 2012 6:10 pm
... As I understand it, 'describedby' relates to the *resource* while 'profile' relates to the *representation* and the two should not be mixed. I may have...
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Eric J. Bowman
eric@...
Oct 6, 2012 6:00 pm
... If your protocol supports it, sure. Otherwise, !REST, as REST is based on the principle of generality -- not customized protocol hacking. -Eric...
Hi, What about the opposite direction relation? So you are viewing the representation at the canonical URI, and there is a (templated) link to (all) the...
Folks; first off, thanks a bunch for your comments, greatly appreciated. ... Thanks for pointing me there. The approach outlined in there seems definitely...
yep, using canonical is good, esp. in cases where you have multiple representations. my point was to give you a way to get all other options within easy reach....
all good suggestions, but consider using canonical anyway, so that there is a well-defined identifier for the resource, and not just for all variants....
consider: 1) use link headers with the response that return the list of all other representations for the current response (work on rel values for this) 2)...
Folks; trying to build REST resources that make heavy use of delivering different representations of binary files, I ended up looking for thoughts on how to...
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Sandeep Shetty
sandeep.shetty@...
Oct 2, 2012 10:09 am
Filed an issue with tent.io about the lack of HATEOAS in their API (which they call a "protocol";) and the cost of interop with existing systems: ...
