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0 pointsmasklinn15y ago0 comments

It can probably be argued to be: you can't just go to rdio/api/1/artist/whatever, but you can get the exact same thing via RPC calls.

I often think that, via REST APIs and content negotiations, API can become browseable and self-descriptive but I've yet to see any example of such a thing. Furthermore, just because an API is restful doesn't mean it's well-designed, and doesn't mean it has descriptive APIs (the artist's track could just as well be in rdio/api/64D89CAC?q=42, that wouldn't inherently make the API non-restful)

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deno15y ago

> I often think that, via REST APIs and content negotiations, API can become browseable and self-descriptive but I've yet to see any example of such a thing.

It should be trivial with AtomPub/GData/OData APIs. REST itself is not specific enough for that.

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