SteveC schreef: > > On 9 Jun 2008, at 20:26, Stefan de Konink wrote: >> The payload should be validated anyhow. And going to the 'first' child >> is an operation that should happen too. >> >> So if this is only because 'rails needs it' I hope the C++ guys or my >> code can replace this ugly duplication soon. > > really, there are more important things to 'fix'. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REST
I thought you were the non-academic guy. > it makes the routing work > it makes each controller separable > it looks nice > it has some logic behind it It is not required, thus the high performance API server could ignore it ;) The routing itself could also be done based on the request type. GET/POST/PUT. > all you're advocating is like going back to something awful like XMLRPC > with a single endpoint. Am I? I'm just looking at the requirement and reducing the amount of checks, back to what is actually required for 'creates/updates' but keep it as pretty outside as you want, I guess mod_rewrite got a usable boost by Wikipedia too... Stefan _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev