... +1 As an aside you'll find maintenance and validation easier if your status values are all lowercase (all upper would be okay too, but uglier.) Has nothing...
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Matt McClure
matthewlmcclure
Dec 3, 2012 1:40 am
... This seems like a really important point. As I started reading about hypermedia APIs, the authors seemed to be evangelizing the benefit that server...
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Erik Wilde
drethoo
Dec 3, 2012 2:00 am
hello matt. ... this is a very good question. one important aspect is that it's always bad if clients are tested against just one implementation. server ...
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Eric J. Bowman
eric@...
Dec 3, 2012 4:15 pm
... DELETE /orders/1 doesn't have to delete the resource, it can move it to, say, /canceled/1. In which case you're only changing one property of the order...
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Eric J. Bowman
eric@...
Dec 3, 2012 4:18 pm
... Yes, such examples are out there, but in them, /cancel is NOT a resource in the REST sense so they must be some style of RPC... REST, not so much....
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Max Toro
maxtoroq
Dec 4, 2012 10:40 pm
Thank you very much for your responses Eric. The short answer is (if I understood correctly): POST /cancel is not REST because it lacks visibility, since it's...
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Jan Algermissen
algermissen1971
Dec 4, 2012 10:45 pm
... Maybe of interest: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/message/18998 jan...
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Eric J. Bowman
eric@...
Dec 5, 2012 12:31 pm
... I'd phrase it differently: "POST /cancel violates self-descriptiveness as user intent cannot be discerned by examining the request." This would hold true...
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Erik Wilde
drethoo
Dec 7, 2012 8:45 pm
hello all. i just sumbitted an initial draft of "URI Template Descriptions" as draft-wilde-template-desc-00. however, it seems that there currently is a bit of...
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Nicholas Shanks
nickshanks
Dec 8, 2012 8:53 am
I think URI templating is detrimental to the web and should not receive any standards body endorsement. Can you present a use case which cannot be solved by...
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Philippe Mougin
pmougin2001
Dec 8, 2012 10:35 am
I use URI templates as a component of my hypermedia controls. They let me dynamically communicate to clients how to build certain URIs. They are more powerful...
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Mike Kelly
mikekelly876...
Dec 8, 2012 3:56 pm
... Be useful if you explained why you think that. (you're probably wrong, by the way) Cheers, M...
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Erik Wilde
drethoo
Dec 8, 2012 4:50 pm
hello nicholas. ... you are aware of RFC 6570, right? cheers, dret....
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CÃat Ó GÃ...
keithgaughan
Dec 8, 2012 6:05 pm
You realise that URI templates and forms are, more-or-less, the same kind of thing, albeit with the former being more flexible in kinds of URI it can generate...
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Erik Wilde
drethoo
Dec 8, 2012 6:21 pm
... nicholas did not really say what he means by "forms". but typically, forms are a combination of (1) a template (which may be runtime or baked into the...
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Doug Davis
duglin
Dec 8, 2012 10:46 pm
These may be of interest: http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypertext-driven in particular bullet points #4 and #6 ...
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Erik Wilde
drethoo
Dec 10, 2012 8:04 pm
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wilde-template-desc-00 -- erik wilde | mailto:dret@... - tel:+1-510-2061079 |...
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Shea Levy
shea_levy
Dec 11, 2012 1:40 am
Hi all, Why doesn't authorization violate the statelessness constraint of REST? It seems to reduce visibility (monitoring systems need to know both the request...
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mike amundsen
mamund
Dec 11, 2012 2:16 am
Shea: <snip> Why doesn't authorization violate the statelessness constraint of REST? It seems to reduce visibility (monitoring systems need to know both the ...
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Eric J. Bowman
eric@...
Dec 11, 2012 7:25 am
... There's nothing inherently unRESTful about personalization. Basing it on digest auth gives us caching advantages over both cookies, and tying it to...
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Mike Kelly
mikekelly876...
Dec 11, 2012 11:45 am
Eric, Please could you start adding a tl;dr summary to the top of your posts Cheers, M ... -- Mike http://twitter.com/mikekelly85 http://github.com/mikekelly ...
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Eric J. Bowman
eric@...
Dec 13, 2012 8:49 pm
I'm always glad to be of help... http://www.stylusstudio.com/xsllist/201212/post20070.html ...but still waiting for the day when I can say "just use REST" and ...
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Dey, Santanu
santanu_apigee
Dec 16, 2012 4:34 pm
Folks, Your comments and reviews welcome on my recent webinar on API Facade Patterns. This episode is on One Phase to Two Phase Conversion API Facade...
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Erik Wilde
drethoo
Dec 21, 2012 2:15 am
hello. for those interested in URI Templates and Template Descriptions, http://dret.typepad.com/dretblog/2012/12/structuring-uri-templates.html might be...
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Glenn Block
glenn_block
Dec 22, 2012 10:34 pm
Disclaimer: Mostly for .NET devs, but anyone is welcome...
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Glenn Block
glenn_block
Dec 22, 2012 10:41 pm
And now the real message. :-) <forgive me if you think this is spam> Howard Dierking, Pablo Cibraro and Pedro Felix, Darrel Miller, and I are all working on a...
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Dey, Santanu
santanu_apigee
Dec 23, 2012 6:50 am
Friends, Your comments and reviews welcome on my recent webinar on API Facade Pattern. This episode is on One Phase to Two Phase conversion. API Facade...
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Eric J. Bowman
eric@...
Dec 23, 2012 8:54 am
... Ah! Symfony for .NET -- I get it. ;-) -Eric...
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Greg Young
gumboismadeo...
Dec 27, 2012 1:27 pm
We have been having an interesting discussion here regarding the AtomPub protocol. Is it ok to change the MemberUri on a put? EG: Return a Location header and ...
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Erik Wilde
drethoo
Dec 30, 2012 12:06 am
A new version of I-D, draft-hausenblas-csv-fragment-01.txt has been successfully submitted by Erik Wilde and posted to the IETF repository. Filename:...
