On 26/02/13 13:38, [email protected] wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 08:29:48PM -0800, Peter Secor wrote: >> The WUI usually has a pretty good json representation of most screens, just >> tack on a query arg ?t=json to the WUI URL and see what you get. I used to >> use it a lot when running scripts to check node usage but it's also useful >> for scraping other node stats. > > The correct way to do this is to send an "Accept: application/json" header > in the request. Don't change the url to specify the type of return data. > The response should have the same mime type. This follows normal REST design > patterns.
It isn't clear that the separation of resources and representations in REST, i.e. the fact that different representations don't have different URIs, is actually a good idea. Certainly *many* sites and APIs don't follow that part. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥
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