Archive for the ‘rest’ Category

URI “Purity”

Posted on August 21st, 2007 by aaron
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In my article on REST + WCF, I mentioned something I called “URI Purity”:
“URI purity”, as I define it, refers to the degree with which implementation details “leak” into the URI of a resource. (read more…)
Interesting that I come across this post tonight by Jon Flanders [via] where he created an HttpModule to rewrite the [...]

Creating RESTful Web Services with WCF 3.5

Posted on August 21st, 2007 by aaron
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My inaugural article titled “Creating RESTful Web Services with Windows Communication Foundation” is up at developer.com. Go give it a read, if you dare! I recently spent quite a while digging into the REST implementation in WCF 3.5 (Beta 2): WebGet/WebInvoke, WebOperationContext, WebServiceHost and their ilk. It’s some pretty interesting stuff.
Feel free to make [...]

A humble WCF feature request (or four)

Posted on July 16th, 2007 by aaron
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Since Steve Maine’s excellent and informative blog appears to be down tonight, I’m posting my request here for all to see.  I’d like to see two things for WCF in .NET 3.5.
First is response message encoding specified per service operation.  If we’re really creating a RESTful service, then it makes sense to be able to [...]