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> > On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Patrick Donelan <pat> wrote: > > > > > And this gets you the following endpoints to fire requests at: > > > /api/rest/cd/create > > > /api/rest/cd/id/[cdid]/update > > > /api/rest/cd/id/[cdid]/delete > > > /api/rest/cd/id/[cdid]/add_to_rel/[relation] > > > /api/rest/cd/id/[cdid]/remove_from_rel/[relation] > > > > Those URLs don't strike me as very RESTful. > > > > Patrick > > > > That is my first impression. My work is an enhancement from > Catalyst::Action::REST, which is a great module already out on CPAN > and used by other people (holoway++). > > I'm all for collaboration, but my work is mostly tied to have exposed > webservices (in addition to a web-browser compatibility layer) via > REST. By that I mean that I expect, and require, that I can do a PUT > /api/rest/cd/[cdid], DELETE /api/rest/cd/[CDID] > > On a side note about REST - REST doesn't mean human readable URLs. It > means representative URLs. The bit about cd/id/{CDID}/ smells like > named parameters going into positional parameters. What is the real > difference between cd?id={CDID}&action=delete, aside from different > characters? Where as with REST, /cd/{id} is a unique identifier for > that object and hence a full representation. The problem I see with /cd/{id} is that when you have a primary key that is 'create' - this would clash with the 'create' action. /cd/id/{id} let's you separate the reserved words from the user data. > > I understand the limitations of /cd/id/{id} vs. /cd/name/{id}, but a > lookup and redirection service is a better solution that polluting > your absolute unique representative URL spaces. > > You can catch me on IRC next week, as I'm actively working on this for > $work and it's getting real dev time (finally). My work is > functionally complete, but lacking test cases; it is just a refactor > of existing code in production. > > -J > > > > _______________________________________________ > List: Catalyst > Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst > Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst/ > Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/ > -- Zbigniew Lukasiak http://brudnopis.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
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