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Thank you for being realistic. REST means more than just GET, POST, PUT, DELETE. Some may make the excuse that call OPTIONS /path isn't straightforward, but I

by fein 14y ago

Thank you for being realistic. REST means more than just GET, POST, PUT, DELETE. Some may make the excuse that call OPTIONS /path isn't straightforward, but I have no clue how you could get more obvious than that.

thawt 14y ago
The problem with OPTIONS is it doesn't describe anything about the data the resource returns. I really wish there was a DESCRIBE verb that would return a structure of what is expected to be received/sent. Then microformats could spring up around datatypes returned by DESCRIBE. This is of course very XML. Edit: This would also allow for automatic discovery of new APIs.
- steveklabnik 14y ago
  That's what resources that have form-style affordances offer. See, for example, Collection+JSON.