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Hello, I'm new to REST. What is a Connector in the context of REST? |
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radialneon |
"REST is an architectural style constituted of a set of architectural prescriptions applied to components, connectors and data elements within a distributed hypermedia system." |
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Topic for #rest is now #rest REpresentational State Transfer | logs: http://irclog.greptilian.com/rest/today | Â http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss | http://code.google.com/p/implementing-rest/ | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer |
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pdurbin |
good question |
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radialneon |
:D |
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pdurbin |
nothing at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer |
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radialneon |
"Connectors" occurs twice in that page |
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"Reliability is the resistance to failure at the system level in the presence of failures within components, connectors, or data" |
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radialneon |
And "REST's client–server separation of concerns simplifies component implementation, reduces the complexity of connector semantics, improves the effectiveness of performance tuning, and increases the scalability of pure server components." |
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radialneon |
What they mean in their context is unknown to me, though |
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radialneon, https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/software_arch.htm#sec_1_2_2 |
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asdf |
aiui that'd be your http server and client impl |
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radialneon |
asdf, Thanks for that great resource |
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asdf |
that's Fielding's original REST paper; people usually only refer to chapter 5 |
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asdf |
but chapter 1 has definitions ;) |
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pdurbin |
Ah, "A connector is an abstract mechanism that mediates communication, coordination, or cooperation among components." Thanks, asdf |
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radialneon |
So in a RESTful API the client would have to send his authentication details in every request |
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radialneon |
Because the server is not allowed to maintain the authentication state for the client |
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yes, and indeed, in practice this is commonly done using the Authorization header |
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browser-facing webpages use cookies for a weird version of this, but even with them, server programmers will eg. fetch the user from the database on every request, instead of having an in-memory session for that user |
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asdf, you mean with session tokens stored in cookies? |
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