[rest-practices] Modelling membership

[Bill Burke]

Bryan Kearney wrote:
> On 05/04/2010 05:30 PM, Bob McWhirter wrote:
>> I guess I see the need for both.  I consider an href to be like a C++
>> pointer to *something. While that thing can certainly (and maybe
>> absolutely should) have some other identifier.
>>
>> I don't mean to claim that the href is the identifier. It should be
>> opaque, potentially ugly, but easily navigable. ID is just another
>> property, perhaps with uniqueness constraints.
>>
>> -Bob
> 
> I liked what lutter said earlier, which was give dserializers a way to 
> know that they need to go get the further data. Does the existence of
> 
> <element href="foo"/>
> 
> give you that?
> 

Do you gain anything by using href as the association?  If you can't 
think of anything concrete or real, then my vote is always for 
simplicity of implementation.


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