Re: How much REST should your Web API get?

Jérôme Louvel <[email protected]> Fri, 3 May 2013 13:50:47 +0200

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Let me rephrase this: the vast majority of web API designers think that
they should strive to make their API RESTful (fully compliant with the REST
style) because we've told then to, when in fact they don't need/want to go
that far because some constraints of REST are just not a good fit for their
requirements.

Jerome

2013/5/3 Jan Algermissen <[email protected]>

>
> On 03.05.2013, at 13:34, Jérôme Louvel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I would say that the vast majority of Web APIs can never be RESTful
> because they don't fully fit into the REST requirements.
>
> Hmmm...
>
> Jan