[rest-practices] Versioning

Mark McLoughlin markmc at redhat.com
Mon Apr 26 13:52:22 UTC 2010


Hey,

On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 08:32 -0400, Bryan Kearney wrote:
> Following up on the earlier thread... if the preferred model to put 
> version information in the media type, or in the url?
> 
> And.. if in the url, are you starting with a 1 to begin with or if the 
> absence of a number a version 1?

"Version in url and no version means version 1" makes most sense to me
so far:

  https://www.redhat.com/archives/rest-practices/2010-April/msg00014.html

    version negotiation is done by the client choosing between e.g.

      <link rel="vms" href="...." />
      <link rel="vms_v2" href="..." />

Cheers,
Mark.




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