On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 1:01 PM, John Carlson <[email protected]> wrote:

> PUTs, DELETEs require an id in the api, correct?  Are you referring to
> collection identifiers?  I'm talking about uploading multiple JSON objects
> to the server which can be done with http or REST, but http is preferred,
> because there is a single round trip.  And yes, there's JSON coming back
> too (error messages).
>

By 'http' do you mean 'POST'?

As far as REST goes, I prefer use of GET, PUT, and the more long-lived
variations thereof - publish and subscribe. One can PUT to a session-id
that happens to support collections of values. (I'm not fond of POST,
mostly because it isn't idempotent and is thus difficult to safely use in a
disruption-tolerant manner.)



> On Feb 14, 2013 2:45 PM, "Miles Fidelman" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> John Carlson wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Feb 14, 2013 12:52 PM, "Miles Fidelman" 
>>> <[email protected]<mailto:
>>> mfidelman@**meetinghouse.net <[email protected]>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Well, at least in principle, drop an html file in a directory (behind
>>> a server) and it gets served (or drop it in a WebDAV folder).
>>>
>>> That sounds like the web circa 1993.
>>> Again, you have to configure all the hyperlinks inside those files.
>>>
>>> > Again, that's why REST has largely won out over things like W3C web
>>> services.
>>>
>>> REST largely sucks because multiple objects require multiple round
>>> trips, which is why JSON is beating both the above.
>>>
>>>
>> Ummm... JSON is a data format, REST is an API/Protocol layering
>> architecture.  I know a lot of RESTful interfaces that return JSON payloads
>> (CouchDB comes to mind).
>>
>>
>>
>>
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