Re: [Monotone-devel] url schemes

[Markus Schiltknecht]

Hi,

Thomas Moschny wrote:
> There is not something like a REST standard, but as far as I understood, URLs 
> for a restful service should start with a noun denoting what is returned by 
> that URL, and followed by some id (or, in the case of returning a set, some 
> other arguments to further confine that set).
>
> So in my scheme, /revisions/... (plural) returns a list of 
> revisions, /revision/... (singular) the contents of a single 
> revision, /manifest/... returns a manifest, and so on.

Hm.. I looked at the revision in a more object oriented fashion, 
thinking of "get ancestors", "get descendants" or "get manifest" as 
methods of the revision. That's where the hierarchy came from.

I personally don't like having to distinguish between plural and 
singular. However, I don't mind much either way.

> Instead of returning basic_io, my service returns json for everything besides 
> file contents (and raw output in case of the "backdoor" /cmd/...).

Ah, so you were only speaking of the wire format. Yeah, that's fine with me.

Regards

Markus