On Dec 3, 2006, at 4:23 PM, Steve Jones wrote: > Hang on, I'm getting different advice here, my understanding was > that URI naming (picking good names) was an essential part of > REST. If its an internal identifier then that isn't the case. > > So should REST URIs have carefully chosen names, or is banging at > the keyboard randomly the prefered approach? How often do you need to look at a URL to have your browser fetch the page??
But since sometimes humans are looking at the stuff you come up with, http://iuwdwwwez.com/uuzuwe7266tzzzre/uhjfhh77r is propably not ideal - as are variable names like that in source code.... Jan > > > On 29/11/06, Jan Algermissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 28, 2006, at 11:40 PM, Steve Jones wrote: > > > o you are saying that it is _bad_ practice in REST to have sensibly > > named URIs? > > URIs are opaque identifiers (just like object references in any OO > language). You should > not infer anything from a URI. > > Jan > > > > >
