Re: Why the collection?

Hi Jacopo,

Markus' goal is "to keep the simple case simple".
and I think its very inconvenient to give a developer lego pieces which 
he needs to use
to model his own collection instead of having this ubiquitous concept 
available in the vocab.
That's what developers know and except from a vocab whose goal it is to 
describe Web APIs.

Greets, Thomas


On 03/06/2015 11:56 AM, Jacopo Scazzosi wrote:
> Hello everyone.
>
> Between hydra:Link and hydra:supportedOperations, Hydra seems to have 
> a lot of descriptive power.
>
> Wouldn't it be better to let developers pick whatever implementations 
> of the "collection" concept they like and just provide them with the 
> necessary tools to describe how a client should interact with them?
>
> For however complex or simple the representations provided by such an 
> implementation might be, Hydra seems to be already capable of 
> describing what to do with it. A <METHOD> expecting X and returning Y 
> is always the same.
>
> I guess my question is: why the focus on "collections"? What am I missing?
>
>
>
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>
> Jacopo Scazzosi
> Developer
> http://www.jacoscaz.com