[Catalyst] Re: RFC: Catalyst::Controller::REST::DBIC

[Matt S Trout]

On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 09:10:56AM +0200, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
> * luke saunders <luke.saunders at gmail.com> [2008-05-04 02:50]:
> > Also it doesn't distinguish between POST, PUT, DELETE and GET
> > HTTP requests favouring instead entirely separate endpoints,
> > but that's up for discussion.
> 
> Putting the verb in the URI is RPC, not REST. This is not a
> matter of discussion.

No, but how you provide an alternative to full RESTness for clients that
don't handle the full range of HTTP verbs -is- a matter for discussion.

Or at least a matter for determining an architecture that allows you to
use whatever alternative you like.

Please don't let your obsessive REST advocacy blind you to pragmatic
software development issues; it's starting to get boring.

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