Below is a conversation I've had about how to do REST-ful Web applications. I'd appreciate any comments that you think might save me from ending up in the...
Tim O'Reilly gives some insights on web services usage at Amazon: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3005 Here is the interesting part: "Amazon has both SOAP...
I was thinking about the history of programming lately with respect to ReST. In the beginning there was procedural programming. With procedural programming,...
I'm modeling a search engine in Rest. Queries are more complex than just a list of keywords, and should be represented in xml. So my question is: how could I...
Yannick, ... I agree that this seems to be too much for simple search engine queries, OTH I think it is a good idea to create a new resource for the...
... I am not sure if a reduced number of methods per object is beneficial for smaller scale programming contexts, but a programming context based on sending...
S. Alexander Jacobson wrote, ... Not as such to the best of my knowledge. But if you squint really hard, you might notice that REST has an awful lot in common...
... Interesting paper on pi-calculus. (I wonder if an arc could be a channel?) http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/fhlt/docs/project.pdf <quote>The models are based...
Sam Hunting
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Apr 8, 2003 1:22 pm
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Looks more like an Anti-Rest presentation. But still cool. ... From: "S. Mike Dierken" <mdierken@...> To: <rest-discuss@yahoogroups.com> Sent:...
Sam Hunting wrote, ... That's a bit cryptic for someone like me who knows virtually nothing about Topic Maps ... care to elaborate? My wild guess is that the...
... Yannick> I'm modeling a search engine in Rest. Queries are more Yannick> complex than just a list of keywords, and should be Yannick> represented in xml....
Suppose you have resources with the following structure: /container /container/1 /container/2 /container/3 Now, suppose I were to issue a "DELETE /container"....
... Yup. ... Yup. NB, I think pi gets overlooked a lot because people think it's all mobile agent passe-crufty. Too bad, really. ... Cf. Piccola instead....
Jeff Bone
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Apr 9, 2003 3:47 am
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Hmm... that feels less intuitive to me. But if "DELETE /container" is strictly not allowed to be used in this manner, then that's probably the best way to...
I don't know where it would say that its 'not allowed'.... Maybe a better way to look at it is to consider the impact of one choice over the other. For...
Chuck Hinson
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Apr 9, 2003 2:13 pm
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What do you mean "not allowed"? You can implement what you suggested and test it and I'm sure it will work. But the container is not its contents, so...
I think the general question here is what are the standard ReST semantics for container. It feels like we loop through this periodically on this list but...
... <pedantic> I don't disagree with the intent of the question, but shouldnt the question really be "what are the standard _HTTP_ semantics for a container?"...
Chuck Hinson
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Apr 9, 2003 3:17 pm
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Ok, ReST/HTTP semantics. -ALex- ... ___________________________________________________________________ S. Alexander Jacobson i2x Media ...
If you want to delete the contents of a container, why not just PUT and empty container to the URL? ... From: Seairth Jacobs [mailto:seairth@...] Sent:...
... In WebDAV, DELETE is always "deep". There's no way to delete a collection without it's children, because it would result in a DAV-inconsistent namespace ...
... Well, for one, it is REST -- not ReST. I like uniformity in some things. ... Theoretically, you simply PUT something that needs containment, as evidenced...
... From: "Berend de Boer" <berend@...> ... Not for pure-automation approaches where you go beyond a classic web browser. It's not harmful to retrieve via...
... Let me see if I understand this correctly yet: Say I have a container of products... http://example.com/products ...containing individual products e.g.... ...
