Re: REST and DELETE?

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Mike Kelly <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't think it's correct to characterise self-descriptiveness in
> boolean terms. There's a whole continuum of self-descriptiveness, and
> some parts of an interaction do not necessarily need visibility. For
> example, if my API requires clients to include headers for their
> star-sign, what their favourite episode of Friends is, and rating of
> their current happiness levels out of 10.. it's "more
> self-descriptive" than your API

That's not self-descriptive, it's just "descriptive".

Self-descriptive is where the message's meaning depends only on the
message itself (as interpreted by referenced standards).

Mark.