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Article:		The REST of the Web
Subject:		Shouldn't you be creating new URIs?
Date:		2005-05-06 18:43:09
From:		jrbriggs
Response to: Shouldn't you be creating new URIs?
Absolutely. Which is exactly what I *have* done in the past when creating stricter REST web services. But for this simple example I decided not to go into that much detail -- which, on reflection, was obviously a mistake, considering your comments and others. ;-) In any case, the main problem with providing for a proper URI (for example, something like /test5.py/XXXXX) as my example stands, is that I don't think the servlet mapping will pick up test5.py as the correct servlet to call. You probably end up with a Not Found error (I'm on holiday at the moment, so it's a bit hard to check). To create a stricter version, I believe subclassing PyServlet will be required in order to provide for the slightly more complicated uri structure. Unless someone else has a better idea of course.

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• Shouldn't you be creating new URIs?
  2005-05-08 12:32:12  nferrier [View]
  
  
  "I don't think the servlet mapping will pick up test5.py as the correct servlet to call."
  
  Errr... no. Just make sure the servlet mapping has a pattern that looks like:
  
  <url-pattern>/test5.py/*</url-pattern>
  
  
• Shouldn't you be creating new URIs?
  2005-05-08 18:23:57  jrbriggs [View]
  
  
  Ack! You're right. But adding the python servlet as a mapping in web.xml does remove a bit of the flexibility (albeit not much) from the whole system.
  
  I had a play with the source code of PyServlet last night, and it's relatively simple to modify so that it will look for the last reference to a ".py" file in the path and then ignore what comes after. Which would allow you to have a catchall url-pattern and not prespecify py servlets.
• Shouldn't you be creating new URIs?
  2005-05-09 02:50:09  nferrier [View]
  
  
  According to cool-uris-don't-change you shouldn't expose the .py anyway. URIs should be logical and not implementation dependant.
• Shouldn't you be creating new URIs?
  2005-05-12 05:48:17  r.p.wilson [View]
  
  
  Aren't you nitpicking? And I think you've missed the point.