{"id":855,"date":"2005-07-06T01:22:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-06T05:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/wp\/2005\/07\/06\/rest-oh-oh\/"},"modified":"2005-07-06T01:22:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-06T05:22:00","slug":"rest-oh-oh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2005\/07\/rest-oh-oh\/","title":{"rendered":"REST, Oh Oh"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Tim<\/a>,\na thorougly interesting\npiece from Benjamin Carlyle<\/a>\non REST and Object Orientation.<\/p>\n\n

If you’ve ever emailed me, you know my address is “distobj@acm.org”,\nwhere “distobj” is, of course, short for “distributed object”. So I\nthink it’s fair to say that I’ve given this particular relationship a\nwhole lot of brain-time over the past several years (nine, in fact).\nI agree with Ben’s presumed hypothesis that there’s a deep relationship\nhere, and he comes very<\/em> close to nailing it, but falls just<\/em>\nshort, IMO.<\/p>\n\n

Where I think things go wrong is when he talks about Java Beans;<\/p>\n\n

\nThe real meat in my pie is the use of properties, or as I would call them: Resources.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Nope, properties are properties, resources are the Beans themselves.\nImagine a “Person” Bean which might expose the properties; name, birth date,\nbirth city. Now imagine that Bean as a resource, with its own http URI;\ninvoke GET on it and you receive, say, an XML document like this;<\/p>\n\n

\n<Person>\n  <name>Mark Smith<\/name>\n  <birthDate>55<\/birthDate>\n  <birthCity>Bristol<\/birthCity>\n<\/Person>\n<\/pre>\n\n
So the properties of a Bean represent (at least some of) the state of the\nBean, and therefore are returned together in a request for a representation\nof its state, i.e. GET.<\/p>\n\n
Distributed objects are dead!  Long live distributed objects!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Via Tim, a thorougly interesting piece from Benjamin Carlyle on REST and Object Orientation. If you’ve ever emailed me, you know my address is “distobj@acm.org”, where “distobj” is, of course, short for “distributed object”. So I think it’s fair to say that I’ve given this particular relationship a whole lot of brain-time over the past […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,40],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-rest","tag-xml"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","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=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}