[mapguide-internals] RESTful Ramblings of a Restless Lunatic

[Jason Birch]

Cool stuff Bob.

Few thoughts after a brief skim:

- Is there a reason why you're using unique URLs for insert/update
instead of using PUT for update and POST for insert?

- Also, for session creation, it should be enough to POST to /session ,
not /session/create ?  Thinking there may be other things like this...
GET to /session returns EnumerateSessions, that kind of thing.

- I much prefer .xml .json .png etc for different representations.

- I also would like to see the default representation as HTML, with lots
of <a> links. :)
 
Jason


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Robert
Bray
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 12:55
To: MapGuide Internals Mail List
Subject: [mapguide-internals] RESTful Ramblings of a Restless Lunatic

All,

I left FOSS4G last week somewhat pumped after seeing the talk Haris gave
demonstrating his RESTful Web Service client. So I went out this weekend
  purchased the O'Reilly RESTful Web Services book and read it mostly
from cover to cover. That of course left me pondering what a RESTful
interface to MapGuide should look like, so I spent a couple of hours
hacking the following (still incomplete) proposal together:

http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/RESTfulWebServices

I approached this somewhat differently than Haris did, at this point it
is up to you to decide whether that is bad or good. However I think my
approach is pretty clean while exposing all of the capabilities of
MapGuide in a RESTful manner.

Feel free to either discuss this here on the list or add your comments
to the Wiki page (or both).

Bob
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