Hate to be a naysayer but transparently supporting differently content types is not that interesting to me. In any example where I've built a webservice, the client is going to collect JSON or HTML and the format is known upfront. Value I add comes from supporting new service methods, not opening up those service methods to supporting a wider range of response content types. ETags haven't been a concern. Maybe the common cross-cutting/HTTP concerns would be authentication and cache control.
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 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.
