[Catalyst] RFC on how to structure controllers

[Wade.Stuart at fallon.com]

catalyst-bounces at lists.rawmode.org wrote on 06/14/2006 01:11:34 PM:

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> catalyst-bounces at lists.rawmode.org wrote on 06/14/2006 11:23:16 AM:
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> > * Wade.Stuart at fallon.com <Wade.Stuart at fallon.com> [2006-06-14 17:10]:
> > > I mean does it ever make sense to blindly allow users to jump
> > > into a random spot of a 3 or 4 page billing/order "wizard"?
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> > I spent 15 minutes trying to think of a way to respond to this,
> > but I really can?t. There are many concepts that play into REST
> > app design to sum them up in a few words. All I can say is that
> > it?s nothing to do with bookmarking. (Or only very tangentially.)
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> True, also very little to do with web app design,  web services
> are another beast.  Even if you are RESTing your web app to
> make services available in the future, there are still many
> areas that would need to be restricted or exposed
> differently for said services.
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> REST layout for an app that is not designed to be a web service seems
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Let me expand here cause rereading this I did not convey my thought.

REST layout, nix session data, being pushed for webapps without
thinking and planning about bookmarking seems silly. We are all
talking web applications here right?  That is how I read this thread.