Darrel

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   by Darrel 15y ago

   I use HATEOAS because I derive very specific benefits from the client/server decoupling it enables. I have used it to build a large business application. I agree that far too many people talk about HATEOAS that have never really used it
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   by Darrel 16y ago

   Not sure how all REST folk feel, but Roy doesn't have any problem with using the convention of file extensions to indicate resources with different formats. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/message/1396...
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   by Darrel 16y ago

   As soon as you decide to create two URLs such as /user/1.json and /usr/1.html you are creating two distinct resources. The litmus test for determining if two URLs refer to the same resource is you do a GET on both and only one of them retu
4. 4.▲
   by Darrel 16y ago

   A REST API should be simple to use. However, it is frequently not easy to build a simple REST API.
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   by Darrel 16y ago

   All query string parameters are used to identify the resource also. RFC 3986 states "The query component contains non-hierarchical data that, along with data in the path component (Section 3.3), serves to identify a resource within the sc