Re: Bookmark 'stability'

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Eric J. Bowman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Paul Cohen wrote:
>>
>> My understanding of coupling in the context of data types is quite the
>> opposite! Also I don't see that REST deals with data types at all -
>> standardized or not.
>>
>
> OMG, standardized media types are a key concept of REST,

Yes indeed. But media types /= data types. The web works fine without
being recompiled every morning.

>> I don't think you understood what I meant. I used the term "coupling"
>> in the sense that this client requirement on the server (of
>> maintaining URI:s) leads to undesired consequences for the developers
>> and the server.
>>
>
> Client requests old URL.  Server responds 308 with new URL.  Client
> updates bookmark, never requests obsolete URL again.  There is no
> coupling here, by any definition of the term.

I am not arguing against that this is good behaviour on the part of
the server. I'm saying that there should be no formal requirement for
a server to maintain (for ever) all URI:s that have been exposed to
clients.

We don't seem to have the same understanding of the terms involved or
problem, so I'm leaving the discussion for now.

/Paul

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