I've heard of how Rails and such support this and it sounds slick, however
I've never had occasion to use it. :(

Mebbe it's like Reflector and I'm just still on the short bus though :)

On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Michael Ibarra <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'd be interested to hear more.
>
> I'm toying with something like you've described, only bypassing the MVC
> layer altogether and finding it a bit more involved than I think it should
> be.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
>
> On Feb 6, 2011 9:04 PM, "Glenn Block" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello folks (Ignore this is if you saw it on another list :-) )
>
> We're looking to understand how many folks using MVC are really interested
> in more support for building web apis that are consumed by a multitude of
> clients.
>
> When I say REST in this sense, I don't simply mean returning a JsonResult,
> rather I mean supporting multiple media types like OData, Json, Xml, and say
> Atom all from an MVC controller where the client uses content negotiation /
> accept headers to specify their preferences. Some of these media types might
> also use hypermedia constraints in the representation to allow clients to do
> distributed workflows (If hypermedia sounds like complete techno jibberish,
> don't worry about it :-) ).I am also talking about other HTTP concerns like
> generating ETags / supporting conditional GET and PUT.
>
> All of this IS achievable today in MVC, but you have to do a bunch of work
> like for conneg.
>
> My question is how many of you ARE doing it today, or want to do it but it
> is too painful?
>
> Thanks
> Glenn
>
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