{"id":1167,"date":"2005-11-29T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-29T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/wp\/2005\/11\/29\/sacrifice-and-architectural-purity\/"},"modified":"2005-11-29T10:58:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-29T14:58:00","slug":"sacrifice-and-architectural-purity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2005\/11\/sacrifice-and-architectural-purity\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacrifice and architectural purity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hughw.blogspot.com\/\">Hugh Winkler<\/a>\nshares\n<a href=\"http:\/\/hughw.blogspot.com\/2005\/11\/common-sense.html\">some thoughts<\/a> on what is and isn&#8217;t RESTful\nin a\n<a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/rest-discuss\/message\/5534\">recent rest-discuss thread<\/a>;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/hughw.blogspot.com\/2005\/11\/common-sense.html\">\nRESTful design is not an end in itself: If you find yourself adding complexity to honor the constraints of REST, consider the benefit of the complexity and only do it if the benefit is clear.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Without a doubt.  The reasons I dwell on the minutae of what is and\nisn&#8217;t RESTful is pretty simple though.  It&#8217;s not because I&#8217;m some kind of\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/articles\/fog0000000018.html\">architecture astronaut<\/a>\nas many assume.  No, I&#8217;m interested in the edge cases of RESTfulness because I want to\nunderstand exactly <em>when<\/em> I&#8217;m making a tradeoff, as well as what kind(s) &#8230; which is\nfar more difficult than you&#8217;d expect.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hugh Winkler shares some thoughts on what is and isn&#8217;t RESTful in a recent rest-discuss thread; RESTful design is not an end in itself: If you find yourself adding complexity to honor the constraints of REST, consider the benefit of the complexity and only do it if the benefit is clear. Without a doubt. The [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}