[microformats-discuss] Re: XHTML-REST -> APIs

[Ryan King]

On Oct 14, 2005, at 1:49 PM, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> On Oct 13, 2005, at 12:56 PM, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:
>
>> Is this making sense yet? :-)  I'm still filling it in, but  
>> hopefully people can follow along...
>
> Thanks to all of you who showed up last night for dinner.  I've  
> updated the base accordingly:
>
> http://microformats.org/wiki/rest-brainstorming
>
> Its cool to see Dimitri and I have been thinking along similar  
> lines.  Two major issues:
>
> a) Its the data[base], stupid!
> [no offense, just an American slang phrase, sorry]
>
> I realized that a series of key-value pairs following a common  
> schema are merely (duh) database tables, with URIs being 'primary  
> keys' allowing relations between them.  The difference is that we  
> don't need to completely describe all the data ourselves -- we  
> merely provide the basic info and let the server handle all the  
> normalization and default values.
>
> Given that, I propose the following normative URI format for XHTML- 
> REST:
>
> http://host:port/base/table/record

FWIW, this is pretty much what Ruby on Rails does by default.

-ryan

> I realize the SQL terminology could be slightly misleading, but it  
> seems a much closer mapping than classes/instance, and (at least  
> naively) encourages the right mindset.  Reactions?
>
> b) OpenSource 1.1
>
> One of the biggest challenges is figuring out the right way to  
> return search results. As Tantek pointed out, this is precisely  
> what OpenSource 1.1 is supposed to do:
>
> http://opensearch.a9.com/spec/opensearchresponse/1.1/
>
> However, contrary to what I though he said, I don't see any  
> specifications for HTML encodings of results.   Does anybody know  
> of such, or do we need invent (transpose) them?
>
> -- Ernie P.
>
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