{"id":147,"date":"2003-07-29T15:16:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-29T19:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/wp\/?p=166"},"modified":"2003-07-29T15:16:00","modified_gmt":"2003-07-29T19:16:00","slug":"back-to-doug-on-dynamic-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2003\/07\/back-to-doug-on-dynamic-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to Doug on dynamic documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rds.com\/doug\/weblogs\/webServicesStrategies\/2003\/07\/29.html#a1002\">Doug Kaye responds<\/a>.\nIt seems we did miscommunicate.  I like to tweak my terminology on occasion, to try to blur\ndistinctions for my readers that I believe are artificial, such as that between objects and resources.\nIt came back to bite me this time it seems.  I&#8217;ll be more careful in the future.<\/p>\n\n<p>Doug writes;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\nI continue to believe that dynamic documents, such as those which evolve during a complex business process, are best communicated through non-REST style interfaces.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Which is weird, because I&#8217;d say that is what REST does best.  A URI\nis just an identifier.  I could use one to identify some instance of a business\nprocess, and at any point, anybody with that URI could invoke GET to retrieve\na document which represented the state of the process.  As the process\nmakes progress (in any direction 8-), subsequent GETs will return\ndifferent results representing the current state.  I&#8217;m not sure how else to\nhandle viewing dynamic processes, other than transferring some mobile\nagent pickled with its state, and then prodding the agent for the info,\nbut I don&#8217;t think Doug&#8217;s talking about that.  Hmm&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Doug Kaye responds. It seems we did miscommunicate. I like to tweak my terminology on occasion, to try to blur distinctions for my readers that I believe are artificial, such as that between objects and resources. It came back to bite me this time it seems. I&#8217;ll be more careful in the future. Doug writes; [&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-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","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=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}