On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 09:01 -0500, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> Robert Koberg wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 08:38 -0500, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> >> Andrew Welch wrote:
> >>>> I can always create abstraction layer upon abstraction layer. They make
> >>>> pretty piles, until they fall over.
> >>> How about creating a servlet called something like update, then map
> >>> all urls to it:
> >> That's not RESTful - that's putting an update verb in a URI noun.
> >
> > updater?
>
> No. The reason REST works is that you have a limited set of verbs (GET,
> PUT, POST, DELETE) operating on a huge set of nouns - the URIs.
just quibbling, but 'updater' is a noun. It can be used with any of the
verbs.
>
> The problem here isn't finding update capabilities - POST already
> provides that. The problem is addressing resources at a granularity
> level that's more convenient for doing updates than a complete document.
>
> Thanks,
> Simon St.Laurent
> Retired XML troublemaker
> http://simonstl.com/
