BREAD, not CRUD

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by johnm • 18 years ago

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stcredzero2• 18 years ago

a) it sounds better

b) Browsing is a very important web function

jamesbritt• 18 years ago

Sure, but how are the RESTafarians going to map the HTTP verbs to BREAD? It's chaos, I tell ya!

michael_dorfman• 18 years ago

Regarding b): shouldn't we be concerned that the original 4 functions apply to a single record at a time, when the new addition of "browse" seems to apply to a collection of records?

davidmathers• 18 years ago

Yes.

bscofield• 18 years ago

A collection of records can itself be a record. Browse is just Read for a set of records.

Gah, I hate this suggestion.

swombat• 18 years ago

Interesting.

Browse, Read, Edit, Add, Delete

It'd be nice if REST actually used those verbs rather than:

GET, PUT, POST, DELETE

thwarted• 18 years ago

You can always define your own HTTP methods and use other verbs.

Apache Script directive: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_actions.html#script

Depending on browser and javascript framework support (guh, as always), you can then use whatever method you want in Ajax calls (first argument to XMLHttpRequest.open, or jquery's $.ajax.type).

systems• 18 years ago

Well I like CRUD because it reminds of the word Crude, something simple primitive, something in its basice form, just like a primitive CRUD web application, a very basic one!

BREAD, not CRUD

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