On Dec 5, 2006, at 12:34 AM, Steve Jones wrote: > And if names are obfuscated and not meaningful then how do you > communicate to clients what the URI actualy means and what request > they should make?
From a REST POV, it is important that the client knows the meaning of traversing a certain link (the meaning of the state transition perfromed by traversing that link). The client knows this from the media type. The URI is *not* providing any meaning in terms of traversing through the application's state machine, it is just an object identifier. If you have a URI and no clue what to do...do a GET and follow your nose[1]. Jan
