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Re:REST Anti-Patterns (2008) by michaelchisari on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @03:35PM (#14310947)
I'll defend REST's utility for simple data retrieval. If I just need a paginated list of comments on a video, being able to quickly hit /video/1093/comments and get that list back is really nice.

More complex use cases, and specifically non-idempotent operations, is where I find REST doesn't hold up as well as RPC.

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Re:REST Anti-Patterns (2008) by naasking on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @08:19PM (#14312930)
> If I just need a paginated list of comments on a video, being able to quickly hit /video/1093/comments and get that list back is really nice.

REST isn't about human-readable URLs. The link to the comments should have been part of the representation returned for /video/1093 (typically JSON these days, so a "comments" property of the object).

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