Also Frank ETags are very much related to caching

On Sunday, February 6, 2011, Frank Schwieterman <[email protected]> wrote:
>   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
>>
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