Subject: Re: “HATEOAS” (was: 30x Status codes)
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.web.services.rest
Date: 2007-10-03 01:36:01 GMT (39 weeks, 3 days, 22 hours and 3 minutes ago)
On Oct 2, 2007, at 6:02 PM, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > * Peter Lacey <placey <at> wanderingbarque.com> [2007-10-02 19:35]: > > compliance with HATEOAS (God, I hate that term) > > Yeah, me too; which is why a while back I proposed saying > “hypermedia-driven application state” instead, whose initialism > is HDAS, and whose long form rolls of the tongue with nicely > rhythmically if you cut “application” to “app.” People weren’t > very enthusiastic about the idea, though. > > So instead I’ve taken to saying “the hypermedia constraint” or > sometimes just “hypermedia” over either “HATEOAS” or using the > full phrase. Eg. in this case it’d be: > > Similarly, form-based links that allow compliance with the > hypermedia constraint require an extra trip. The word "hypertext" should have been enough, but it actually means very different things to different people (especially those within the hypertext research community). I can't just shorten it to "hyperstate" either, since that would imply "much more state" (not what we want). It has some aspects in common with "data reactive" engines, as in http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/paraducks/papers/tr9605.d/ though I wasn't aware of that paper until 10 minutes ago. Much of the software architecture research on constraints was influenced by the GUI work on constraint-based layout toolkits. I would suggest calling it the "hypertext constraint" when in normal discussion, or the "reactive constraint" when within slapping distance of a literary hypertext fan. ....Roy Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:rest-discuss-digest <at> yahoogroups.com mailto:rest-discuss-fullfeatured <at> yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: rest-discuss-unsubscribe <at> yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/