On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 3:54 PM, J. Shirley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 1:52 AM, Zbigniew Lukasiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 7:05 AM, J. Shirley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > >> > On a side note about REST - REST doesn't mean human readable URLs.
> > It
> > > means representative URLs. The bit about cd/id/{CDID}/ smells like
> > > named parameters going into positional parameters. What is the real
> > > difference between cd?id={CDID}&action=delete, aside from different
> > > characters? Where as with REST, /cd/{id} is a unique identifier for
> > > that object and hence a full representation.
> >
> > The problem I see with /cd/{id} is that when you have a primary key
> > that is 'create' - this would clash with the 'create' action.
> > /cd/id/{id} let's you separate the reserved words from the user data.
> >
> >
>
> A pet peeve of mine is that people seem to have this weird idea that
> primary key == id. An id can just be some human readable mechanism to
> looking up the item, where as the primary key is what is actually used
> by the database to determine the relations.
>
> They do not have to be the same field but often times they are out of
> convenience. In cases like this, they simply shouldn't be though.
Sorry but I don't understand your point - so maybe first I'll restate
mine. If you have primary key in the database that is of type varchar
(or char or ...) then 'create' is a legitimage value for that primary
key.
If you just don't like the string 'id' in the URI - then I have not
any preference to that - it can be /foo/primary_key/ for me.
>
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