One thing I haven't heard in this discussion is the usage of links. That's a crucial feature of anything REST.
Have you looked at prescod.net? Paul Le 25-déc.-08 à 18:33, Fabio Mancinelli <[email protected]> a écrit : > Sergiu Dumitriu wrote: > >> Yes, it is. But the whole REST concept is a best practice on top of >> something old. After all, it's just a way of using classic HTTP in a >> special way. There are no hard validation rules yet, and the fact >> that >> something is or isn't REST depends on the person you ask. > > The ultimate validation is Roy Fielding's thesis. > > Anyway, I am not against what we have said. > > What I would like to avoid is to build a so called RESTful Api that is > not RESTful and that would be criticized as this API > http://wikis.glassfish.org/socialsite/Wiki.jsp?page=FinalizeRESTAPI > in this post > http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypertext-driven > >> About the long URLs, many coding books suggest that longer, >> descriptive >> names are better than very short ones. A name should be long enough >> to >> describe what it holds, but from all the possibilities, the shorter >> ones >> are preferable. Short, _understandable_ names. A URL is a name, >> too. We >> should favor understandability over shortness. >> > > I am +1 about this, don't misunderstand me. > Now the problem is to use these URI in a proper RESTful context. > Well conceived media types and hypermedia leverage is the biggest > challenge now. > > -Fabio > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
