[Catalyst] Catalyst::*::REST and Javascript

[Jonathan Rockway]

* On Fri, Aug 15 2008, Patrick Donelan wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
>
>     Whereas ExtJS seems to be of form:
>
>            userResource = new Resource('http://example.com/users?id=001')
>
>
> ExtJS can send any sort of HTTP request you like - it doesn't really care how
> RESTful your URLs are. Like all Ajax toolkits the connectivity portion of the
> library is just a glorified wrapper around the browser's XHR object.

FWIW, this style URL is not "not RESTful".  It's perfectly RESTful -- it
refers to exactly one noun, and you can mutate it with HTTP methods
(presumably).  That's REST.

If you wanted to make it non-RESTful, then you would do things like:

  GET http://example.com/users?id=001&operation=delete&archive=0

or

  GET http://example.com/users/001?operation=delete&archive=0

That's RPC, not REST.  But as you can see, the URL scheme is irrelevant
when determining what is and is not RESTful.

Regards,
Jonathan Rockway

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