Re: Resource definition
Mark Baker <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 04:38:54PM -0800, Burdett, David wrote: > In an earlier email, Francis McCabe said ... > > >>>... to use one of Mark's earlier examples, turning on a light switch. The > state of the light is a representable resource; no question. The action of > flipping the switch is not so representable. The arm which is used to flip > the switch is, however, a resource; although any representation of it in > terms of bits is merely a symbol and not the real thing.<<< > > So is the act of moving the arm to turn on/off the switch a resource? Well, I suppose you could make it one, but I'm not sure what that would accomplish. One doesn't need to talk about a switch, or the movement of a switch, or even a toggleSwitch() method, in order to effect a state change with the bulb, because the interaction style is one of *state transfer*; if I want to turn the bulb on, I just do a HTTP PUT containing a representation of the "on state" to the URI identifying the lightbulb. MB -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca Web architecture consulting, technical reports, evaluation & analysis