[RESTafarian zealotry follows: you have been warned. ;-) ] james_027 wrote: > is there any advantage or disadvantage or best practices in forming > urls?
Yes, there is. By following web architecture principles, as formalized in the REST (REpresentational State Transfer) methodology, you gain benefits of simplicity, uniformity, interoperability and scalability. This series of articles by Joe Gregorio is a good introduction to REST: The Restful Web http://www.xml.com/pub/at/34 Work on REST for Django is being done by Andreas Stuhlmüller within the Google Summer Of Code initiative, here's his last report: GSoC 2007 Status Update VI: Django REST interface http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/browse_thread/thread/f86bd8ea6579baaa/dd5598af026e62f2 > like which set are much better? > > domain/employee/1 > domain/edit_employee/1 > domain/inactive_employee/1 > > or > > domain/employee/1 > domain/employee/1/edit/ > domain/employee/1/inactive/ Neither. :-) According to REST, you don't put verbs in your URLs. Verbs are already contained in the HTTP protocol: GET and POST are usable by current browsers, then there's PUT and DELETE (and a few others), accessible by Django via this snippet: HttpMethodsMiddleware http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/174/ Here's a quick rundown of how your URLs could be refactored. > domain/employee/1 GET /domain/employee/1 This one would return the default, read-only representation of the resource. > domain/employee/1/edit/ I like using parameters for identifying alternate representations of resources. In this case: GET /domain/employee/1;editable (notice the semicolon) would return the editable representation of the resource. You could then edit it, and POST the data: POST /domain/employee/1;editable > domain/employee/1/inactive/ Is this meant to set the employee status? You could use the above POST to just send the enable flag, or else you could separate the resource metadata in a distinct representation, and POST that instead: POST /domain/employee/1;metadata Enabled: false -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ Being online demands a tremendous amount of discipline. You must shut out the world around you and focus exclusively on a glowing screen. You must sit in a chair for hours on end and will your body to remain still. You are at an altar, but you are both priest and supplicant. -- Scott Jason Cohen, July 2000 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
