HiYa -
Somewhere in your posts I commented about the confound between UserName and ID by integer … and felt pretty self-concious about that … but I just read something that tells me I’m not a lunatic:
in the Flikr interface example in “Hypermedia in RESTful applications” Mark Baker points to the exchange required to get contact info … that’s what I was mumbling about. (“Mumbling” because I code, but am not a programmer.)

“A hypermedia solution would have used standardized identifiers – URIs, for the Web – instead of proprietary ones, thereby avoiding the need for Flickr-proprietary knowledge for a client to go from a document with a list of people, to a document about one of those people.”

I’m not suggesting what’s being done is /wrong/ … just that it isn’t using the resources ?what? artfully.

cheers
–bentrem

HiYa -
Somewhere in your posts I commented about the confound between UserName and ID by integer … and felt pretty self-concious about that … but I just read something that tells me I’m not a lunatic:
in the Flikr interface example in “Hypermedia in RESTful applications” Mark Baker points to the exchange required to get contact info … that’s what I was mumbling about. (“Mumbling” because I code, but am not a programmer.)

“A hypermedia solution would have used standardized identifiers – URIs, for the Web – instead of proprietary ones, thereby avoiding the need for Flickr-proprietary knowledge for a client to go from a document with a list of people, to a document about one of those people.”

I’m not suggesting what’s being done is /wrong/ … just that it isn’t using the resources ?what? artfully.

cheers
–bentrem