Re: REST and DELETE?

On Aug 9, 2012, at 4:13 AM, Mark Baker wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Jan Algermissen
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > My thinking is based on [1] but surely a server side resource-cart is fine as well. Especially if you want to maintain it across browsers.
> 
> Until you consider the fact that the "buy" message has to contain all
> that state since it contains the expectations of the user.
> 
> http://www.markbaker.ca/blog/2007/11/users-and-self-description/
> 

Yeah - certainly the checkout has to be sth like

GET /user/fred/cart

<cart> ... </cart>

and then:

POST /orders/

<cart> .... </cart>

And *not*

POST /user/fred/cart?placeOrder
Content-Length: 0

http://algermissen.blogspot.de/2010/03/why-resources-are-rest-anti-pattern.html

Jan



> Mark.
> 



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