Lukas ... Yes, that is IMHO one of the biggest problems you face once you actually start to implement a system. I am having similar problems right now,...
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Terrence Brannon
princepawn
Sep 5, 2005 1:17 pm
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.cgi-prototype.user as well. I have been trying to...
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Nic Ferrier
nferrier_tap...
Sep 5, 2005 1:44 pm
... I'd say that you should use the accepted content-types to arbritrate between what content-type to return the resource in and use a parameter (or a cookie)...
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Nic Ferrier
nferrier_tap...
Sep 5, 2005 1:44 pm
... A web service would find out that it could POST about Brannon's /guestbook by doing a HEAD and looking at the suported methods. But how could a web service...
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Vincent D Murphy
johnfoobar1
Sep 5, 2005 1:55 pm
On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 12:07:13 +0000, "Terrence Brannon" <bauhaus@...> said: [snip] ... I don't understand the question. What does "entry listings per...
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Jan Algermissen
algermissen1971
Sep 5, 2005 1:58 pm
Nic, best would be to let the client discover the gestbook URI via hypermedia and to communicate the parameters to the client using RDFForms[1]. Jan [1]...
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Jan Algermissen
algermissen1971
Sep 5, 2005 8:18 pm
... Ok, I understand you now. Good idea (though my szenario is more complex and will definitely require manual additions for service checks (Nagios term). ...
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Terrence Brannon
princepawn
Sep 5, 2005 10:53 pm
... Take a google search for example. You get N entries on each page instead of the entire result set. Likewise, it is common to return retrieved records in...
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Josh Sled
joshsled
Sep 6, 2005 2:22 pm
... One way to think of large result-sets, especially using query-paramters, is "paramaterizing the resource space". E.g., one can think of google as an...
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Jan Algermissen
algermissen1971
Sep 12, 2005 1:10 pm
Hi, has anybody ever documented interactions of components in a RESTful system with UML sequence diagrams? I am particulary interested in clever ideas how to...
5214
Walden Mathews
waldenmathews
Sep 12, 2005 9:35 pm
Jan, I'm not sure I get the problem of documenting calls that go through intermediaries. Is this any different from delegation in an object oriented model? ...
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Mark Baker
gonga_thrash
Sep 12, 2005 10:34 pm
Could you annotate either the message or the component? I guess it depends what you want to accomplish ("document calls"?) with that information....
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Claude Montpetit
claude_montp...
Sep 13, 2005 3:02 pm
I am involved on a project that will most likely be offering a WebService API based on REST. There are questions I have regarding a specific aspect of this...
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Jan Algermissen
algermissen1971
Sep 13, 2005 4:30 pm
Claude, ... Sure, yes. ... Yes, that would be fine. Note though, that you propably should not use a verb in the URI since that implies an operation ...
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Claude Montpetit
claude_montp...
Sep 13, 2005 5:59 pm
... The operation behind this URL is an acquisition process in a sense that it does not return a device state. It tells the system to contact the device to...
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Jan Algermissen
algermissen1971
Sep 13, 2005 6:14 pm
... Hmm...is that important to the client? Isn;t the goal just to obtain the state? Why involve the client in anything that happens behind the scenes? Do a GET...
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Hugh Winkler
hwinkler99
Sep 13, 2005 6:30 pm
... [hvw] Oops. That's a bad operation for GET, because the GET has the side effect of changing the state of another resource (the one where you get the actual...
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Claude Montpetit
claude_montp...
Sep 13, 2005 6:50 pm
... Yes, this is important to the client. The system supports many goals, such as retrieving data, and also to tell the system to connect to the device "on...
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Jan Algermissen
algermissen1971
Sep 13, 2005 7:04 pm
Hi, the latest thread reminds me of something: It is a very common question on this list if some service API (meaning 'set of resources serving an overall...
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Jan Algermissen
algermissen1971
Sep 13, 2005 9:21 pm
Claude, ... I'd POST the device ID to e.g. http://server/acquisitions and have the server 'create a new aquisition object'. A GET on that would return it's...
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S. Mike Dierken
mdierken
Sep 15, 2005 2:15 am
Excellent points. ... You'd be suprised at how hard it is to touch components after they have been deployed at medium-to-large companies too. The two factors...
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toydi
iamstupidiot
Sep 15, 2005 2:06 pm
... Assuming the first goal, "retrieving data" is just to retreive device state information from database without changing anything, is it correct? When the...
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Claude Montpetit
claude_montp...
Sep 15, 2005 5:41 pm
... Absolutely. This is close to the API I am leaning to. Reading more on REST, I realize that I must think in term of resources as opposed to operations. So...
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Jan Algermissen
algermissen1971
Sep 17, 2005 3:02 pm
Hi, the coverage of the topic isn't really beyond mentioning it, but I think it is an interesting fact that REST is explicitly mentioned as an alternative to...
5228
wanderingstan
Sep 22, 2005 9:48 pm
Hi, Forgive me is this is a standard newbie question... I'm developing a firefox extension that talks with a server via a RESTful API. Most REST discussions...
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Jan Algermissen
algermissen1971
Sep 22, 2005 9:54 pm
... Stan, *maybe* I stumbled across something a few days ago: http:// www.jalgermissen.com/blog/xmlhttp_and_auth.html I have not had the time to check this...
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Lucas Gonze
lucas_gonze
Sep 22, 2005 10:02 pm
... I think you can reset the credentials by sending a request which causes the server to stop accepting the current credentials. That's just an idea, though...
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Tyler Close
tjclose
Sep 23, 2005 3:05 pm
Hi Stan, Lucas, ... It's important to understand why this is terrible, because there's a very elegant solution hidden underneath the terrible. Including the...
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Andrzej Jan Taramina
ataramina
Sep 24, 2005 2:27 pm
... Unfortunately, human nature will likely kill your idea as it has in almost all applications for years now. Users have trouble remembering a single ...
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Tyler Close
tjclose
Sep 24, 2005 3:36 pm
Hi Andrzej, ... (snip) ... Fortunately, they don't need to. Each resource password is embedded in the corresponding URL. The user just clicks on hyperlinks,...
