And now for something completely different …<\/p>\n\n
I thought it might help my cause for me to admit that I’m only\nhuman (yes, I’m not really a know-it-all!), and that there remain\nthings about REST and Web architecture\nthat I don’t understand (including those things that I don’t even\nunderstand that I don’t understand 8-). Here’s my current list of\nthings I know<\/em> I don’t grok.<\/p>\n\n Can I do PUT with POST RESTfully?<\/em> I go back and forth on\nthis one all the time. At first glance, the answer seems to be yes;\nthat it should be possible to “submit data” with POST semantics, but\nusing a mandatory extension (ok, so it’s\nM-POST<\/a>) to\nindicate the extended intention of “state replacement”. But when you\ndig a bit deeper, you wonder if this is equivalent to tunneling;\nthat the extended intention of PUT-via-POST provides visibility into\nthe terminal state of the resource, which seems to be a no-no from a\nREST POV. I won’t even bother you with the wacked mental model I\nhave of this issue, except to say that it involves\nresidues<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n Self-description and namespace mixing<\/em> If I produce a\nmulti-namespace document, am I automatically importing the\nentailments<\/a> of\nthose namespaces? Dan Connolly says<\/a>\nyes (at least for RDF Schema), and I disagree with him. But I lack\nthe background in this space to be able to convince Dan (or even\nmyself, for that matter). It’s just a hunch at this point, but the\nissue has very important consequences, especially to REST which requires\nself-descriptive messages<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And now for something completely different … I thought it might help my cause for me to admit that I’m only human (yes, I’m not really a know-it-all!), and that there remain things about REST and Web architecture that I don’t understand (including those things that I don’t even understand that I don’t understand 8-). […]","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-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","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=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}