Re: Bookmark 'stability'
Dan Haywood <[email protected]>
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On 28 September 2012 09:46, Ruben Verborgh <[email protected]> wrote: > > If there’s no stability, how can a REST system possibly work? > Okay, right, hypermedia… (assuming that at least the starting URI remains > stable) > but we can't expect clients to navigate to the desired resource every time > again, can we? > > In theory, yes, in in practice, no. A server is likely to make some additional URIs bookmarkable along the client's journey through its hypermedia; staging posts, if you will. I like the idea that came up on a thread here recently (new to me if not anyone else) that the "bookmark" rel is used to indicate this.