Re: the meaning of stateless

Mark Baker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.services.rest
Message-ID <CALcoZioOtf0O=zGLg2SvyhztUMLMVU-gSYxN-W+0PFwtAp8GSw@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Mike Schinkel <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Apr 24, 2013, at 8:37 PM, Mark Baker <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Well, it sounds like you have a far narrower view than I do of what
>> constitutes "workflow" or "transactions", but yah, what you've got
>> above is totally stateful.
>
> Okay, can you explain a broader view?  An approach this is not stateful?

Remember the days before electronic banking when we had to fill out
slips and submit them to a teller?

POST /transfer-request
{"from": "http://example.org/acct/12345",
 "to": "http://example.org/acct/12346",
 "amount": 300 }

Mark.
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