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RESTful thinking considered harmful - followup (shopify.com)
15 points by wvanbergen 5191 days ago
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lvh 5191 days ago
"However, REST requires developers to realize that stuff like "publishing a blog post" is a resource,"

I don't get this.

Blog posts are resources. POSTing to the collection of blog posts creates a new one. "publishing a blog post" is an action, maybe -- not a resource.

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kennu 5190 days ago
I don't think the original author groks REST particularly well. Fundamentally it's really simple, once you understand the difference between actions and resources.
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