REST is over - Hackdot

Re:REST is over by kls on Friday February 24, 2012 @06:38PM (#3631617)

You know what it reminds me allot of? MVC. MVC used to have a concrete definition in SmallTalk, Struts 1.0 adopted it fairly pure as well, but from there almost everything became MVC and MVC started to become a fairly generic term for separation of concerns. REST seems to me to be falling into the same trap where originally it was the HTTP actions, then nouns and verbs, now it seems to be expanding in scope again.

In defense of the grandparent post though, REST never specified a data or for that mater media format. It could be JSON or XML or even a binary format like a bitmap but a lot of people that talk about RESTfull services talk about JSON which is not a requirement of the original REST concept. REST was more about how a resource was accessed, not what that resource is.

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Re:REST is over by icebraining on Friday February 24, 2012 @07:32PM (#3631726)

originally it was the HTTP actions

Not really. The web is a RESTful system, but there's nothing specific to HTTP in REST. It's just an architectural style, it doesn't specify nothing in concrete.

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Re:REST is over by kls on Friday February 24, 2012 @10:07PM (#3632024)

I understand that, but for all intents and purposes people are doing REST over HTTP, when people talk about REST and it's use on the web HTTP is implied, my use of originally was definitely not the correct word choice better verbiage would be "when it started to be used by web application developers REST was". That being said They (REST and HTTP) where envisioned together, while REST does not require HTTP, for the most part that is where it is being utilized, HTTP actions being used as the semantics to transfer the representative state.

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