Re: How much REST should your Web API get?

Mike Schinkel <[email protected]> Fri, 3 May 2013 12:44:36 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.services.rest
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On May 3, 2013, at 8:04 AM, Jérôme Louvel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Regarding media types, their power lies in their standardization. Having a separate one for each application isn't that useful, and ends up with the media type being used in a generic JSON/XML way or abstractes away in a programming client SDK.

Exactly.  

Given Jan's "Not gonna happen" comment[2] related to standardization of media types, I found this blog post[1] from Kin Lane posted yesterday oddly well-timed. :)

-Mike

[1] http://www.apievangelist.com/2013/05/02/startups-need-to-work-together-on-api-definitions/
[2] http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/message/19384