Ask HN: Using REST design for complex function calls?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1000671
by oconnor0 • 17 years ago
2 2 17 years ago

I like everything I've read about REST but am confused about how to use REST designs for an API with mostly complex, math-y function calls that compute values & return them.

Because the functions require complex - potentially, arbitrarily large - inputs, it's too difficult to pass them in via GETs.

Is there discussion or articles somewhere about using REST for computational APIs rather than for resource-based APIs?

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