- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 22:39:19 -0400
- To: Siarhei Biarozkin <sberyozkin@zandar.com>
- Cc: www-archive@w3.org
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 04:56:43AM -0400, Siarhei Biarozkin wrote: > > > How POST in this example can be used RESTfully to > > > see what happens after the data has been submitted ? > > > Well, you just POST the data, and see what you get back. If it's a 201, > > then you know a new resource was created in response to your POSTed > > data, and you can invoke GET on that. The POST response might also just > > contain a link someplace else, which you can invoke GET on. > Ok, as far as a (generic) intermediary is concerned, how the response could > be usefully handled before it's passed to an immediate requestor ? > Probably, if it's 201, then a newly created resource could be fetched in > advance so that it's already available by the time a request from an > (original) client arrives, and this also would require that intermediary > sets an URI of a newly created resource to its own one ? > What if it's not 201, but some data, as in a response from a primer, where > clarification request is returned after processing an initial booking > request ? An intermediary can not predict that a clarification request will > be or won't be returned in a POST response ; if it's returned, then how it > can be generically processed? Sorry, I don't understand what you're getting at, or asking there. > I'd like also to ask about late-binding and a tool support. With WSDL R085, > a tool can generate a set of classes for a client. It seems that > late-binding assumes that no code generation is needed, because a generated > code early-binds a client. What is a programmimg model for accessing > late-bound services ? Well, just look at your favourite languages' HTTP libs. > If a client wants to get a quote from a late-bound, SOAP-based service , it > could ask for it like this : > POST soapgateway;stockquote:sunw How so? Where's the documented expectation that POST will retrieve a quote? > and from another non-SOAP service like this : > GET quotes/sunw, > using the same code, perhaps normalizing response data into a common format. > So a question is : can a code be generated for a client so that it could > transparently talk to multiple services ? Sorry, not following again... what would you want this code to do? Handle the different data formats? Sure, that could be done. Mark. -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca
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