Re: Restpark - Minimal RESTful API for querying RDF triples

On 4/16/13 3:31 PM, Barry Norton wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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).

+1

Kingsley
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> Barry
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>> 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
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>> 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.
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