On Thu, 24 May 2007, John Goulah wrote:
What are peoples thoughts on using REST not only as a web service, but also within the application itself as another layer of abstraction? I would assume in this way all the DB related calls would go through the REST layer, and this way they can be invoked as services or locally through the app. Is this too much overhead since the model itself is a layer?
There is definitely an overhead issue, but the bigger question is why you think this would be a good idea.
The big advantage of using a Perl API is its expressiveness and flexibility. Perl is a programming language. HTTP + JSON|XML|YAML is not a programming language, and as such is much less flexible.
What possible benefit could you get from using REST the way you propose, that's not outweighed by the massive downsides?
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