Re: Re: Internet-Draft: JSON Hypertext Application Language

Hi Francios,

I actually started out intiially with this design. The problem I found was
that it wasn't very good for readability, and some people just seemed to
find it confusing. So I opted to split them into two different elements.

I think having them as two distinct elements improves the aesthetics of the
type and doesn't add too much in terms of additional complexity.

Cheers,
M


On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 3:18 PM, François Verry <[email protected]> wrote:

> **
>
>
> > what goal does the "_links" special attribute serves ? couldn't links be
> > considered as "empty embedded resources" ?
>
> To comment on my own comment, this is even more simple into the XML
> representation :
>
> <resource href="/orders">
>   <link rel="next" href="/orders?page=2" />
>   <link rel="search" href="/orders?id={order_id}" />
>   <resource rel="order" href="/orders/123">
>     <link rel="customer" href="/customer/bob" title="Bob Jones
> <[email protected]> <[email protected]>" />
>     <resource rel="basket" href="/orders/123/basket">
>       ...
>     </resource>
>   </resource>
> </resource>
>
> Could as well be :
>
> <resource href="/orders">
>   <resource rel="next" href="/orders?page=2" />
>   <resource rel="search" href="/orders?id={order_id}" />
>   <resource rel="order" href="/orders/123">
>     <resource rel="customer" href="/customer/bob" title="Bob Jones
> <[email protected]> <[email protected]>" />
>     <resource rel="basket" href="/orders/123/basket">
>       ...
>     </resource>
>   </resource>
> </resource>
>
> ++
> François
>
>
>   
>



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