The one true REST explanation

Re:The one true REST explanation by IgorPartola on Friday November 12, 2010 @11:10AM (#1898073)

Are there any good examples out there of services that implement that last level? I have seen and used the others but not discoverability.

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Re:The one true REST explanation by smeatish on Friday November 12, 2010 @11:34AM (#1898170)

Check out twilio's documentation on their REST API: http://www.twilio.com/docs/api/2010-04-01/rest/response#hype...

Since their core product is an API, they've done a really good job building in all the levels of REST discussed in the article, including discoverability.

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Re:The one true REST explanation by jchrisa on Friday November 12, 2010 @02:25PM (#1898846)

Any website that uses HTML forms (properly) is at the last level. Also, using the <a href ... > tag is also using HTML as the engine of application state transitions.

This article makes things out to be more complicated than they actually are. Just make decent HTML. REST was extracted from the web, it doesn't need to be imposed on it.

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Re:The one true REST explanation by mikek85 on Friday November 12, 2010 @11:14AM (#1898091)

http://gowalla.com/api/explorer

isn't bad

edit: Btw, any well designed website is at level 3.

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