{"id":1273,"date":"2012-08-15T15:53:06","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T19:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=1273"},"modified":"2012-08-15T15:53:06","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T19:53:06","slug":"restful-webservices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=1273","title":{"rendered":"restful webservices"},"content":{"rendered":"

My friend Steven<\/a> recently wrote about linguistics in webservices<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In it he postulates that since all “good code” should resemble speech, webservices should use linguistically-tied approaches to their APIs. In short, it’s an article on RESTful websites being used in a linguistically-understandable way.<\/p>\n

For example:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/searchengine.com\/search\/keyword1\/keyword2\/not:keyword3<\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

should run your query against the search engine, so you can always tell what it is doing, and how it works.<\/p>\n

Personally, I think this is a great idea – it goes with the concept that all URIs should be truly “permanent”, and that the web should be understandable by mere mortals.<\/p>\n

I am perennially surprised that companies use horrid URL formats when simple ones can be done. For example, WordPress uses a .htaccess<\/code> file and Apache’s mod_rewrite to make URLs look nice.<\/p>\n

Why can’t Newegg do the same? Surely “http:\/\/www.newegg.com\/Product\/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100019151%2050001707&IsNodeId=1&name=Activision&SpeTabStoreType=8<\/code>” is not friendly to remember, or to query outside of the site itself. And that’s only a small example – the more filters added, the worse the URL becomes.<\/p>\n

Then consider the URLs that get created when a site uses something like FeedBurner to handle its RSS feeds – heaven help you those URLs can look ugly<\/em><\/strong>!<\/p>\n

Creating a RESTful approach is not all that difficult, and every web developer should be required to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My friend Steven recently wrote about linguistics in webservices. In it he postulates that since all “good code” should resemble speech, webservices should use linguistically-tied approaches to their APIs. In short, it’s an article on RESTful websites being used in a linguistically-understandable way. For example: http:\/\/searchengine.com\/search\/keyword1\/keyword2\/not:keyword3 should run your query against the search engine, so …
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