I've been doing my own research into REST and I have a question I thought I'd throw out to the group.

A REST architecture provides a really simple way to GET, PUT, POST, DELETE a resource.  But let's say I need to accomplish a more complicated task in one step.  Given an interface such as:

How would I add two items to an order in one step?

Also, would I handle something that is intrinsically verb based such as search?

I really like how simple REST is and how it makes use of the underlying protocol (HTTP), I just don't understand how you can elegantly design without additional verbs.

Are there any good online resources that talk about this?  I have ordered "the book" but it hasn't arrived yet.

I'm looking forward to your talk Nick.  Hopefully this discussion will help to peak some interest.

Regards,

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Dan Glauser