Re: How much REST should your Web API get?

Matt McClure <[email protected]> Fri, 3 May 2013 16:56:58 -0400

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On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Jørn Wildt <[email protected]> wrote:

> **
> In an ecosystem with one single server and custom build clients (Twitter
> clients for instance) there really is no need for media types/uniform
> interface: the client can safely assume that the server is going to return
> JSON in one specific flavor each and every time the client makes a request
> to it. Neither is hyper media of much relevance since it is quite safe to
> assume that the server won't change its URL structure.
>

Ironically, there are multiple servers that implement the Twitter API. For
example, http://en.support.wordpress.com/twitter-api/

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