No.. no.. no.. replace REST with SOAP, and I can go along with it.
Why?
Because it secures jobs.
REST is over
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#12I think the term "hypermedia" will catch on just like REST did. People will begin to slap on the hypermedia label to their APIs whether or not they are true hypermedia APIs. Developing hypermedia APIs will be the new craze until some other revolutionary terminology is introduced to describe yet another way to correctly develop APIs.
Yes, this is how the world works. Some people push ideas forward. Others jump on for the ride. I fail to see a problem with this though. It's the job of those pushing the ideas forward to communicate effectively about what they are doing so that we can determine which followers are doing the right thing.
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#13I'm sorry, but "hypermedia" is a terrible term. You might call a webpage a kind of hypermedia, but web API's accessed via HTTP? That makes no sense at all. Hypermedia is a huge umbrella term which describes content, not a means for sending and retrieving data!
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#14I'm sorry, but "hypermedia" is a terrible term. You might call a webpage a kind of hypermedia, but web API's accessed via HTTP? That makes no sense at all. Hypermedia is a huge umbrella term which describes content , not a means for sending and retrieving data!
Hyper anything sounds terribly retro to me, circa 1992.
But I agree: it is an uninformative term for anything which merely establishes a connection and sends/receives data as opposed to specifically delivering content.
REST is just fine as it is. It is a well-understood term for what it does. Why reinvent the wheel and stick a new label on it every five minutes?
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#15I'm sorry, but "hypermedia" is a terrible term. You might call a webpage a kind of hypermedia, but web API's accessed via HTTP? That makes no sense at all. Hypermedia is a huge umbrella term which describes content , not a means for sending and retrieving data!
Hyper anything sounds terribly retro to me, circa 1992. But I agree: it is an uninformative term for anything which merely establishes a connection and sends/receives data as opposed to specifically delivering content. REST is just fine as it is. It is a well-understood term for what it does. Why reinvent the wheel and stick a new label on it every five minutes?
REST is well understood? The percentage of self-described REST APIs that actually respect its constraints is almost a rounding error.
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#16While the title is link bait, the author has a point and I think it was best summed up by his use of the word RESTish. Absolute adherence to REST nouns in every application is similar to the old over normalizing in relational databases some times it does not fit the need. But that does not make the concept null and void it just means that it is a good rule of thumb, to be broken when the situation calls for a differe…
What do you mean by "REST nouns"?
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#17First time I heard the term "hypermedia".
It's in the first line of the REST chapter[1] of the original thesis:
(...) Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural style for distributed
hypermedia systems (...)
[1]: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch...
[2]: http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hyperte...
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hyper anything sounds terribly retro to me, circa 1992. But I agree: it is an uninformative term for anything which merely establishes a connection and sends/receives data as opposed to specifically delivering content. REST is just fine as it is. It is a well-understood term for what it does. Why reinvent the wheel and stick a new label on it every five minutes?
REST is well understood? The percentage of self-described REST APIs that actually respect its constraints is almost a rounding error.
Well, I'd probably agree with that. There are some truly bizarro API implementations.
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#19The article is Ok, but posting "REST is OVER" is obvious flame bait. People need to stop doing this on HN.
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#20The article is Ok, but posting "REST is OVER" is obvious flame bait. People need to stop doing this on HN.