On Jul 15, 2006, at 3:35 AM, Gregg Wonderly wrote:
> Jan Algermissen wrote:
> > Ron et al.,
> >
> > not sure if this is helpful, but, making my last comment the other
> > way round, one could also say that a uniform interface is indeed
> > insufficient if you think in terms of *services* having that
> > interface. If you want to use a uniform interface you have to expose
> > the (existence of the) individual objects (e.g. the lightbulbs)
> > because the method calls apply to these objects, not to the
> services.
> >
> > Does that help?
>
> The URI for your resource is exposing the operation. The payload of
> the PUT
> requires an indication of which lightbulb should be manipulated, or
> the URI must
> contain this information. Either way, the user has to 'know' the
> name of the
> object right?
Sure, yes. I was just trying to illusrate the point that the method
invocations in
REST *are* the operation; that there are no out-of-band-semantics
involved.
Jan
>
> Gregg Wonderly
>
>
>
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