[rest-practices] Read-only fields in a representation type

[Bryan Kearney]

On 04/21/2010 11:17 AM, Bill Burke wrote:
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> Bill Burke wrote:
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>> Good point. A resteasy committer has written a jaxrs-javadoc
>> generator. Of course this wouldn't work very well with non-java
>> implementations. Jersey has nice support for WADL. Wouldn't be hurt if
>> you decided to move to it because of WADL. I just don't have the time
>> or will to get into any WADL development/support.
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Naw.. I like using our own stuff where we can. I will look at the 
javadoc stuff. Would you be opposed to a WADL contribution?

>> While WADL does support the concept of linking and opaque URLs, it
>> doesn't contrain itself. I worry that with WADL you'll get a tighter
>> coupling between client-server that isn't desired.
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> BTW, I'm not sure Jersey's WADL support is gonna support automated link
> introspection and you'll still have the "forgetting to update" problem.
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I would hope once there is a standardized way to decorating your objects 
with possible links, that a tool could say:

"Here are all the links which could exist"

Although for any specific resource, they may not.

-- bk