[microformats-discuss] STRUM, REST, and DETH

[Dr. Ernie Prabhakar]

Hi Luke,

On Oct 12, 2005, at 4:13 PM, Luke Arno wrote:
> Sure. A endpoints in REST style service would be "nouns". The "verbs"
> would be the methods of HTTP. [1] What you describe seems to offer
> endpoints as methods.
>
> BTW, I like your ideas here a lot. Just being my picky self :)

Thanks. I think. :-)

Actually, I really *do* want to keep URIs as nouns, I'm just trying  
to wrap my head around all this. I guess what I really want to be do  
is XHTML-REST, not XML-RPC.

To give myself something concrete, I'm trying to digest the Amazon  
specs:

http://images.amazon.com/images/G/media/i3d/01/associates/ecs- 
dg-20051005.pdf

Would any REST-ful folks care to comment whether that is a good or  
bad implementation of REST concepts?  For example, they treat ItemID  
as a keyword, not a part of the URI, and really only have one base URL:

http://webservices.amazon.com/onca/xml?Service=AWSEommerceService

Is that "fair" or "optimal"?  If not, what's a more RESTy way to do  
things?  And what advantage would that provide?

-- Ernie P.


>
> - Luke
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 
> Representational_State_Transfer#REST_versus_RPC
>
>
> On 10/12/05, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar <drernie at opendarwin.org> wrote:
>> Hi Luke,
>>
>> On Oct 12, 2005, at 6:36 AM, Luke Arno wrote:
>>> I don't think I would call this REST. Sounds like XHTMLRPC.
>>
>> A fair point -- Rohit made the same comment.  I'm curious, though --
>> could you define exactly what you mean by that, just to help my
>> understanding?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> - Ernie P.
>>
>> ------------
>> Ernest N. Prabhakar, Ph.D. <drernie at opendarwin.org>
>> Ex-Physicist, Marketing Weenie, and Dilettante Hacker
>> Probe-Hacker blog: http://www.opendarwin.org/~drernie/
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> microformats-discuss mailing list
>> microformats-discuss at microformats.org
>> http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
>>
> _______________________________________________
> microformats-discuss mailing list
> microformats-discuss at microformats.org
> http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss

------------
Ernest N. Prabhakar, Ph.D. <drernie at opendarwin.org>
Ex-Physicist, Marketing Weenie, and Dilettante Hacker
Probe-Hacker blog: http://www.opendarwin.org/~drernie/