Re: Changing representations

On Jul 26, 2012, at 11:39 AM, Danny Ayers wrote:

> I've struggled with this myself, on seeing the same question appear on
> another list I think it's worth posing. I'd appreciate clarification.
> 
> Server-side you have a named resource. You PUT something there in a
> given media type, what expectations have you over other media types?
> My feeling was it doesn't matter, as long as the HTTP contract, any
> subsequent GET will give something appropriate. Hopefully the change
> percolates. But although that makes sense, it's kinda vague. The
> interpretation I saw by this guy on a list, trying to follow the spec
> properly, was like there were different buckets hanging of the
> resource, you push some json, the json bucket changes. Does that
> influence the other buckets?
> 
> Might have to dig Roy up

Here you go:  http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/message/6726

Jan



> , but clarification on this would help.
> 
> Cheers,
> Danny.
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