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   Re: [xml-dev] REST as RPC done right

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On Wednesday 27 February 2002 12:33 pm, Mark Baker wrote:
> interface dog
> {
>  getName();
>  getBreed();
>  pet();
>  walk();
>  feed();
> }
>
> whereas REST models it as;
>
> interface
> {
>   GET()
>   PUT()
>   POST()
>   DELETE()
>   [other method name]
> }
>

So here's a question. If I *wanted* type safety what do I do? I'd be 
most surprised if my dog (Japanese Chin FWIW) would respond to POST, 
PUT, DELETE et al. Point being that you're really tunelling one 
communication protocol over another *unless* the "generic" methods are 
actually meaningful to the resource/application.

Note that Roy explicitly talks about REST for "distributed hypermedia" 
not for "distributed computing" in the general sense.






 

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