Hi Hagen et al,
On Mar 20, 2006, at 12:20 PM, Ryan King wrote:
There's actually a lot of potential here. I remember some of us
talked about this stuff f2f when Dimitri was in the Bay Area last
summer, but not a lot has been done on it since.
True, though we did at least create a place to capture what's been done:
http://microformats.org/wiki/rest/description
While fairly crude so far, the core concept is that forms are in fact
a great way to specify a RESTful web service, so if we solve one
problem we solve the other. :-)
In addition, the work on datatypes might be relevant here as well:
http://microformats.org/wiki/rest/datatypes
(which I'm revising to incorporate Tantek's excellent suggestions :-)
-- Ernie P.
I think there's a couple potential uses of <form>'s regarding (low)
rest-ful APIs.
First of all, you can probably reuse microformats vocabulary to
markup forms. Rough example:
<form class="vcard">
<fieldset class="n">
<input class="given-name" />
<input clas"family-name" />
</fieldset>
</form>
Something like that.
Also, html forms could be useful for documenting the parameters
available on rest resources. Mixed with microformats, as above,
this could be a very useful way to document a rest api. It would
cover much the same territory as WADL, but in a web-native way
which can be very useful to developers, as the forms are a
functional sandbox.
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