Hi,
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 5:39 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacre...@apache.org>wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Justin Edelson > <jus...@justinedelson.com> wrote: > >...I think there is a significant need to be able to "select" > > amongst multiple POST servlets for a particular resource. Thus, I propose > > that we allow for the selector to be passed via a request parameter.... > > Why is that better than using a selector? > Chiefly because the resource is the same yet there are two different paths. So rather than using the path to purely describe a noun, you are also embedding a verb into it. For example, consider a polling resource. You want to be able to vote and clear results. The poll is the noun and "vote" and "clear" are the verbs. With a path-based selector, you have: POST /content/site/poll.vote.html item=one POST /content/site/poll.clear.html With a parameter-based selector: POST /content/site/poll.html :selector=vote&item=one POST /conetnt/site/poll.clear.html :selector=clear Regards, Justin > > -Bertrand (not contesting, trying to understand ;-) >
