Re: [EXT] [OldapWS] ‑> Proposal of a REST Web Service for CRUD Operations

Ulrich, hello.

On 20 Sep 2022, at 8:36, Ulrich Windl wrote:

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Thus the 'JSON query string' sent to the server via HTTP POST wouldn't qualify as 'REST'.

OTOH it will help to keep URIs short and allow easy encoding of structured data.

True -- I wasn't primarily criticising the API design as such, merely noting that the term 'REST' has a fairly narrow definition.

That said, as a separate point, I think the REST design paradigm is a good one, in the sense that it decomposes the problem in a way that I, for one, find useful. It does lead to longer URIs, yes, but that's surely a very minor inconvenience, if it's an inconvenience at all.

Best wishes,

Norman