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 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Seattle area Alt.Net" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Seattle area Alt.Net" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Seattle area Alt.Net" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en.
