- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 12:53:27 -0400
- To: www-ws-arch@w3.org
On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 05:58:24PM -0400, Champion, Mike wrote: > OK, I'm struggling to separate the specifics of HTTP from the general > principles of REST, and in separating out the general principle of a > "uniform interface" with the specific operations defined by HTTP. I do find > it interesting, and probably relevant that CRUD maps directly to the basic > HTTP verbs ... but I would be happy to leave that out if we can talk about > the minimal set of operations on resources ... which amount to creating, > reading, updating, and deleting them, no? Not really, no. CRUD doesn't have the equivalent of HTTP POST which is the workhorse uniform semantic that enables computation beyond data manipulation. For example, POSTing a representation of an order to an order processor for the purposes of ordering something, isn't representable in CRUD. MB -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca Web architecture consulting, technical reports, evaluation & analysis
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