[rest-practices] Piece on RESTful API Design

Bill Burke bburke at redhat.com
Tue Aug 9 13:17:22 UTC 2011


sounds good.

On 8/9/11 8:06 AM, Mark Little wrote:
> I like it. We should try and link it into the REST-* web site too.
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> Bill, what do you think?
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> Mark.
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> On 4 Aug 2011, at 00:10, Geert Jansen wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> i wanted to do this for a long time, and finally got it it. See the link below for an essay on RESTful API design, based on lessons learnt from rhevm-api project:
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>> http://readthedocs.org/docs/restful-api-design/en/latest/
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>>  From the intro: "This is essay is an attempt to put down my thoughts on how to design a real-world yet beautiful RESTful API." It goes into such topics as JSON vs XML, why not XMLSchema, creating CLIs, and more.
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>> Mark, it also contains a worked out version of your idea to use forms for describing inputs.
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>> Feedback is welcome!
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>> Regards,
>> Geert
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