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Microformats in REST Web Services
This the page for discussion, research, and standards regarding how to optimally use Microformats as the encoding for Representational State Transfer (REST) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer) web services. REST is a software architectural style for distributed hypermedia systems like the world wide web. The goal is for all REST-related information in the microformats world to live under this URL.
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Resources
- uf-rest (http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-rest/) discussion list on microformats.org
- rest-discuss (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/) @ Yahoo Groups
- REST on Rails (http://rails.campfirenow.com/a6dc1) @ Rails CampfireNow
- REST search engine (http://search.restlet.org)
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Topics
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URLs
- rest/opacity
- Properly Interpreting the "Axiom of URI Opacity"
- rest/urls
- How should URLs be structured for maximum clarity & discoverability?
- rest/property
- How to emulate WebDAV-style properties (metadata) over standard HTTP
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HTML
- rest/ahah
- Asynchronous HTML vs. AJAX
- rest/datatypes
- How to encode type information in HTML
- rest/description
- What, if anything, is the analogue of WSDL for REST services?
- rest/webforms
- Upgrading browsers to support PUT and DELETE properly
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Implementations
- rest/rails
- Ways to make Ruby on Rails more REST-friendly out of the box.
- rest/json
- RESTful-JSON (http://groups.google.com/group/restful-json), a generic data container alternative (http://bitworking.org/news/restful_json) to AtomPub (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5023).
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Standards
- HTTP as a Substrate (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3205.txt) - Best Current Practice
- text/uri-list (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2483.html) (Section 5, URI Resolution Services)
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Background Research
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Examples
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Brainstorming
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Proposals
Note that these are all preliminary.
- REST-Enabled XHTML (http://www.opendarwin.org/~drernie/talk/rest-enabled-xhtml-20051019.html)] by Dr. Ernie
- original at rest/rex-proposal
- WebUtopia (http://restylab.php5.cz/dreams/webutopia.html) by Toydi
- more details in rest-discuss thread: "Dreams about ReSTifying web apps" (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/message/5290)
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Implementations
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Atom-based alternatives
- Atom Publishing Protocol (http://ietfreport.isoc.org/idref/draft-ietf-atompub-protocol/)
- Google's GData (http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/overview.html)
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Tools
- XOXO parser (python)
- also xoxo-plist.py (http://www.opendarwin.org/~drernie/xoxo-plist.py), a pyobjc variant support Mac OS X plists]
- ahah.js (http://www.opendarwin.org/~drernie/src/ahah.js) Asynchronous HTML over HTTP
- Ruby RESTifarian plugin
$ script/plugin install restifarian # need beta gems/edge rails for this to work
- See also prototype controller (http://www.onautopilot.com/oss/rails/rest_controller.rb)
- Meditation (http://wiki.jonnay.net/bunny/meditation/meditation) a PHP REST API Framework.
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Examples
- DARC (http://www.opendarwin.org/~drernie/C499496031/E20051019100520/index.html): Darwin-Apache-Rails-CoreData
- TurboGear (http://www.opendarwin.org/~drernie/C499496031/E20051026153908/index.html) AddressBook (Mac OS X-only)
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Sites
- Larry Staton Jr. (http://www.larrystaton.com) AHAH-enabled homepage (a first!)
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Participants
- Dr. Ernie Prabhakar (http://www.opendarwin.org/~drernie/C395201355/index.html)
- Teo HuiMing (toydi) (http://restylab.php5.cz/)
- Dimitri Glazkov (mailto:dimitri.glazkov@gmail.com)
- Max Voelkel (xamde) (http://www.xrest.org)
- David Heinemeier Hansson (http://www.loudthinking.com/)
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