Richard Wackerbarth writes: > Primary Key == An identifier of the server's choice that identifies > a unique instance of the specified resource. It is important to > note that the client CANNOT rely on any particular scheme for > mapping other keys to this identifier.
That's true for resources that were added after the client was written, but there's no reason I can see why we shouldn't make it easy for people to write URIs by hand if they know something about Mailman. > > These URIs are pretty ugly. Surely we can do better? > > Perhaps we can. But we need to conform to the HAL framework style. Well, I haven't studied it carefully, but the examples on Mike Kelly's pages are pretty enough. > As I understand it, the consumer understands the semantics of > various links, but the actual links are "discovered" as a part of > previous queries and not "constructed". As such, the links depend > more on the ease of implementation rather than their "beauty". >From the consumer's point of view, yes, the links are discovered. But the producer constructs them. _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
