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our API, like most of the popular "REST" APIs, is not REST as defined by Roy Fielding Other APIs may be imperfect implementations of the ideal, but Rdio's made
by TillE 16y ago
our API, like most of the popular "REST" APIs, is not REST as defined by Roy Fielding
Other APIs may be imperfect implementations of the ideal, but Rdio's made no attempt to look anything like REST. The complaint wasn't about adhering to a spec, but simply inaccurate nomenclature.
- tberman 16y agoHow is it any more inaccurate than: http://www.flickr.com/services/api/request.rest.html http://www.flickr.com/services/api/request.rest.html
- ianloic 16y agoNot to brag, but at least the Rdio API doesn't allow non-idempotent calls over GET.
- garethr 16y agoIt's not. But that doesn't make either of them right. I called Flickr on this 3 years ago before anyone actually visited my blog: http://morethanseven.net/2008/02/21/sorry-but-the-flickr-api-isnt-rest.html http://morethanseven.net/2008/02/21/sorry-but-the-flickr-api...