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REST is as simple as it gets. You could make that argument if someone were to advocate using REST outside of HTTP. But HTTP is inherently REST, so you should h
by deno 16y ago
REST is as simple as it gets. You could make that argument if someone were to advocate using REST outside of HTTP. But HTTP is inherently REST, so you should have a good reason to not use REST rather than the other way around.
- masklinn 16y ago> REST is as simple as it gets. It is not. It's quite complex actually. And I'm betting what most people who believe they have a clue think of "REST" is actually "RPC over pretty urls".
- deno 16y agoBut that's just because of a general ignorance of how HTTP protocol works. If someone were to be explained, how it should work from the beginning, I'm sure they'd have no problem with grasping the subject. Actually some Google engineers do a very good job of explaining how AtomPub and GData APIs work just with short Youtube videos.
- Darrel 16y agoA REST API should be simple to use. However, it is frequently not easy to build a simple REST API.