There is lots of interesting fragments of this broad discussion. If I could summarise the main threads, in order of importance, from my perspective: 1)...
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mgvelvet
Mar 1, 2004 3:36 pm
Wow, Josh. Thanks for the brain dump! I'm trying to write my first RESTful application, and your concrete examples are enlightening. ... What do you mean when...
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Josh Sled
joshsled
Mar 2, 2004 2:54 am
... Awesome. It's important to note that most of my experience here was in a program-program scenario ... a more user[-agent/browser]-facing project would have...
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Tyler Close
tjclose
Mar 2, 2004 5:15 am
... The implementation doesn't have to be that kludgy. See: http://www.waterken.com/dev/Message/Tutorial/ The benefit of mapping data in XML to a Java object...
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Tony Butterfield
butter1060
Mar 2, 2004 9:24 am
... The ... some ... Yes, its about the right tool for the job. For complex processing that cannot naturally be performed in the XML domain, mapping into...
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Tyler Close
tjclose
Mar 5, 2004 5:31 pm
... I agree. ... I think I understand what you're trying to say here, but you are misusing the term 'coupling'. I think you're saying that many processing...
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johncoe42
Mar 16, 2004 5:18 pm
Hello, I was attracted to REST by my experience with accessing UDDI directly from XSL, rather than using SOAP. I have a new project (with a few bugs) to access...
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Jeffrey Winter
kimberliewinter
Mar 16, 2004 5:18 pm
I've been pondering a design decision for a web service and I'd like to solicit opinions on whether a decision would violate mistake #4 detailed here: ...
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Simon Wittber
simon@...
Mar 16, 2004 5:21 pm
[Oops, sorry for the queueing. ACM servers foul-ups caused me to miss these. --Mark] Hello REST people! I've become quite intrigued with REST of late, I had...
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Josh Sled
joshsled
Mar 16, 2004 5:58 pm
... As a side note, I'd encourage you to describe your accounts with the full URI of the resource, not just the ID: <account about="/account/1"> <!-- ... --> ...
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sandeep@...
Mar 16, 2004 8:21 pm
... 404 Error The document: /glyph2/view.php does not exist. ... Can't wait to check it out! I've been working on a REST framework in PHP. BTW, have you...
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Simon Wittber
simon@...
Mar 17, 2004 1:36 am
Sorry about the 404, I sent the original post some weeks ago, and since then have moved to a SVN repository. Its now available at...
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Vincent D Murphy
johnfoobar1
Mar 17, 2004 3:41 pm
... I don't see this as an either/or proposition. If you must have the context-free ID (or other 'key') on its own (to avoid extracting it from the URI string...
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Josh Sled
joshsled
Mar 17, 2004 4:00 pm
... Yes. I was thinking about a very nice property for someone or something using the data, which is being able to traverse the data-linkages without having...
[apologies for dups, I fubar'd CC'ing the list.] ... I think this does violate the principle. But I am not sure about solutions. Perhaps we actually need...
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Jeffrey Winter
kimberliewinter
Mar 17, 2004 4:43 pm
.. > Instead I'd like to POST to some "transaction" resource, .. > say /merge, and create a new resource that represents .. > the transaction details .....
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Vincent D Murphy
johnfoobar1
Mar 17, 2004 4:48 pm
... So we have: /account/#/history /account/#/changes /account/#/revisions .. and counting. There must be some telepathic voodoo going on here.. :) Let's...
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Jeffrey Winter
kimberliewinter
Mar 17, 2004 5:08 pm
I hit the send button too quickly I see... to complete my thought: Perhaps it is a matter of nomenclature as Paul pointed out. In fact it's creating a...
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Josh Sled
joshsled
Mar 17, 2004 6:31 pm
... Well, it might be the same as a merge -- it's really up to what the client is doing, and what the nature of the state being put back is. The real question...
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Chuck Hinson
cmhinson@...
Mar 17, 2004 8:19 pm
... What's wrong with POST /mergeservice <accounts> <account resource="/account/1" /> <account resource="/account/2" /> </accounts> I.e., create a resource...
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johncoe42
Mar 17, 2004 9:07 pm
Here is a TWiki page that can use REST to access web services from TWiki. You will need a TWiki accout to try the Google interface(it is free). Some of the...
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Jon Hanna
hack_poet
Mar 24, 2004 12:43 pm
The action URI thread has reminded me of something that has occurred to me on a few occasions. Now I agree that the following are bad: ...
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Jeffrey Winter
kimberliewinter
Mar 24, 2004 2:21 pm
It seems to me that you are really just suggesting a change in neumonics. Whether you call it /mergeService or /merge it's effectively the same thing. The...
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mgvelvet
Mar 24, 2004 3:36 pm
I have a business requirement to secure certain data within a resource. For example, in a personnel record, I must not return the salary amount unless the user...
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Donald Strong
illyrian_au
Mar 25, 2004 4:33 am
Try posting a merge instruction to the account URL. POST http://myservice/account <merge result="/account/1"> <account id="/account/1"/> <account...
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Paul Jimenez
paulakapj
Mar 25, 2004 5:50 am
currentuser=foo in the querystring sounds RESTful.. it's just an unusual kind of query, no? and maybe it's the 'default' query so it doesn't have to actually...
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Jon Hanna
hack_poet
Mar 25, 2004 10:32 am
... Oops. I think I dragged some baggage over from the other thread that I didn't intend to. ... Transactions, rollback, etc. is the baggage I didn't intend to...
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Jon Hanna
hack_poet
Mar 25, 2004 11:07 am
... There are three approaches I've used with similar problems in the past: 1. Vary content according to user: Pro: a. Relatively simple URI space. Con: b....
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Jon Hanna
hack_poet
Mar 25, 2004 11:57 am
Actually, there's a page like http://conveyor.com/RESTwiki/moin.cgi/VerbsCanAlsoBeNouns which has just this issue. Why didn't I see that before? -- Jon Hanna ...
