20 Sep
2022
20 Sep
'22
12:37 a.m.
Norman Gray gray@nxg.name schrieb am 19.09.2022 um 20:44 in Nachricht
55D788C7-F3D6-4389-BC24-A26318AF0C08@nxg.name:
Greetings.
On 19 Sep 2022, at 17:54, Howard Chu wrote:
Then, I would like to propose a full Open Source first realease of a CRUD
REST Web Service to manipulate OpenLDAP's Directory Objects.
This is a nice idea!
However, as something of a terminology quibble, I'd say this was a 'web service', rather than a 'REST web service'.
As I understand the term, I take 'REST' to refer to a web service which, at
a minimum,
- describes a URL‑based scheme for _naming_ the things being manipulated,
and
- retrieves and manipulates those things via the HTTP verbs, GET, POST,
PUT, DELETE, etc.
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.
...
Regards, Ulrich