On Jan 1, 2007, at 11:05 AM, Ian Bicking wrote:
I'm guessing this is because a POST to a individual resource is
meaningless in RESTful applications. You can PUT to a specific
resource to update it, DELETE the resource, or GET the resource.
Under a typical RESTful setup, you POST to the resource collection
to add new members. (Atom Publishing Protocol serves as the best
model for a RESTful app I believe, which is what this setup
duplicates).
POST isn't meaningless; PUT can only be used for direct updates on
an object, everything else is done as a POST. PUT can also be used
to create objects; APP doesn't use that, because it lets the store
control the URL space, but in contrast WebDAV does use PUT to
create resources.
POST might be used for simple kinds of updates -- e.g., increment a
counter -- or other kinds of control situations. It's not
particularly unRESTful IMHO.
I was referring to using a POST against a member resource. Not POST
in general. Of course, who knows if the Restafarians would consider
WebDAV a RESTful service. The REST religion has many branches, they
don't always agree. :)
Cheers,
Ben
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