Vincent Massol wrote:
> On Dec 18, 2008, at 11:39 AM, Fabio Mancinelli wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I haven't seen any comment about the second proposal I did.
>> It basically "moves" some URI path elements to the parameter list.
>> These
>> elements are the ones that introduces a degree of variability wrt to
>> the
>> resource, namely language and version.
>>
>> For example with a single URI:
>>
>> /spaces/{space}/pages/{page}[?lang=l&version=v]
>>
>> I can get the page at its latest version in the default language (no
>> query parameters) or, by combining the query parameters, any page at a
>> specific version in a given language.
>>
>> I think it is worth thinking about it because, by following the
>> previous
>> example, the 8 URIs in the "pages" section could be reduced to 4.
>> Similarly for other resources where the "version element" basically
>> introduces a doubling of the resources to be exposed (e.g., as it
>> happens with objects and attachments).
>>
>> WDYT?
>
> I don't like it since I'm not sure this is very RESTful.
+1, but it depends.
A resource is identified by the path, without query parameters. The
question is, is there only one resource, with multiple variants, or each
translation/version is a resource?
And we'd still need some path to get the list of versions.
--
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
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