Re: Restpark - Minimal RESTful API for querying RDF triples

Agreed, this is a non-RESTful HTTP API to execute triple patterns.

Furthermore, I'd say that the (rough) relational equivalent would be an 
API that lets you retrieve values from a nominated column where rows 
from a single table match a stated (singleton) primary key, or primary 
key values where the row matches a specified value in a specified column.

Maybe useful in some cases, but pretty far from what people actually 
write (non-RESTful) APIs over a relational database to do. (Sorry, Luca, 
I know you're going for simplicity but you brought up the case of Web 
Services over RDBMSs).

Barry


> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Luca Matteis <lmatteis@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have recently created Restpark: http://lmatteis.github.io/restpark/
>>
>> It's my way of pushing a standard RESTful interface for accessing RDF data.
> Unfortunately, this isn't REST. REST APIs must use hypermedia;
>
> http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypertext-driven
>
> A hypermedia solution would declare a form that described how to
> construct a new URI which could be used to retrieve the data via GET.
> The form would provide the parameter names (e.g. "subject") along with
> their types (e.g. rdf:subject).
>
> Mark.
>

Received on Tuesday, 16 April 2013 19:31:49 UTC