Re: Prefetching VS HATEOAS
Shea Levy <[email protected]>
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On 04/17/2013 03:20 PM, Nathan Sharfi wrote: > On Apr 17, 2013, at 12:13 PM, Shea Levy <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Often when designing REST interfaces for relational resources, I run >> into a tension between the efficiency of prefetching a related resource >> when one is requested on the one hand and the simplicity, elegance, and >> generality of referencing related resources via hypermedia. Does anyone >> have any advice on how best to manage that tension? >> >> Thanks, >> Shea Levy > The two don't seem to be in conflict with each other; Firefox has supported <link rel='prefetch' href='…'> for quite a while now. Do you have a different use in mind? I hadn't heard of that, thanks! Though it does still require an extra HTTP request, so in high-volume performance-critical stuff it might lose out to a completely server-side prefetch. ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/