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* an unfindable Roy quote
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
REST and self-descriptiveness
The REST Architectural Style has this constraint called the Uniform Interface. The Uniform Interface Constraint itself decomposes into four constraints and one of those, the self-descriptive messages constraint, decomposes into at *least* three other constraints. The analysis of what system properties are evoked was done at the highest level - the Uniform Interface Constraint. So, what happens when you modify one of the sub-sub constraints? Who knows, as with all the constraints, you should probably *think* about it with "your eyes wide open"*....
* an unfindable Roy quote
* an unfindable Roy quote
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I can't tell which of these guys you think we should be rooting for.
ReplyDeletehttp://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/message/6594 - which is the thread about 'driving some people nuts', also. :-) http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/message/6613
ReplyDeleteMark: it's a bit of a parody of a common discussion on rest-discuss. Personally, I'm a fan of pragmatism, we should attempt to live by the constraints of REST but when a mismatch occurs, it's more important to consider the mismatch's effects on the system properties rather than dwell on the binary consideration of REST/Not-REST.
ReplyDeleteDuncan: those have to be the most referenced emails on rest-discuss:)
I want to be "serendipitously reused" by my wife at about 9:45 tonight.
ReplyDeleteSorry, I just heard that term too many times in this to not riff on it.