>
> It seems to me that a "truly" RESTful system design is very much in line
> of what Rich was talking about.
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>
This is completely correct. Let's take the common method "GET" for
instance. According to REST philosophy, GETs should be 100% cache-able (and
therefore they are actual values). We can "disable" the HTTP caches simply
by giving different parameters to the get query:
>> GET /person/123?latest=true&rnd={insert random guid here}
{:name "John" :gender "Male" :id 123 :timestamp 1002313}
>> PUT /person/123
>> {:name "James" :gender "Male" :id 233}
/person/123/1002314
>> GET /person/123/1002314
{:name "James" :gender "Male" :id 123 :timestamp 1002314}
>> GET /person/123/1002313
{:name "John" :gender "Male" :id 123 :timestamp 1002313}
>> GET /person/123?latest=true&rnd={insert random guid here}
{:name "James" :gender "Male" :id 123 :timestamp 1002314}
The above perfectly follows what Rich discussed. No information is ever
lost. We have time explicitly defined in the timestamp, and we can always
get the latest version of a value by passing in a random guid to invalidate
the HTTP caches.
If you read up a bit more on REST you'll find that it deals allot with the
avoidance of mutable state, which is exactly what Rich was suggesting.
Timothy
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