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The dream is that your client can dynamically update itself or seek out ways to process new, incomprehensible things* that it encounters while traversing a rest
by macca321 10y ago
The dream is that your client can dynamically update itself or seek out ways to process new, incomprehensible things* that it encounters while traversing a rest request (see "Code-on-demand in REST literature).
If you think this is possible in the wild or not is another matter.
*each nugget of data can be versioned and meaninged independently
- barrkel 10y agoThat, and the semantic web, and pluggable components from different vendors using standardized interfaces, and other architecture astronaut ideas of software composition. Any day now.
- sidlls 10y agoSounds a bit like UML+Rational, visual programming, and every other one size fits all panacea, to be honest. The whole notion of HTTP as an application data transport is terrible. We've hacked at it to create a great number of wonderful web based apps, but I can't help thinking there's a better way.