Question about registry support of general RESTful services.

[Andy Lawrence]

Well I suppose straw does float, after all.

Or maybe we could run the strawman up the flagpole.

Oh dear. Time to shut up and watch TV I think.

  andy

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On 4 Jan 2012, at 21:29, Ray Plante wrote:

On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Theresa Dower wrote:
> Is there anywhere in the IVOA standards docs that I've somehow missed for
> describing generic RESTful services? The ParamHTTP standard doesn’t quite
> fit for a lot of real-world cases. Beyond expanding queryTypes for ParamHTTP
> to include UPDATE/DELETE/ETC,  I also mean some kind of  support for
> parameters that are XML or JSON blobs.  

No, in general.  ParamHTTP represents a special though very common 
subset.  This was done to keep the description of the interface very 
simple and cover the 80%, including DAL service interfaces.  

> If not, I’m beginning to see
> the need for a general extension for it.

I agree.  I'd love to see a strawman floated for it.  

cheers,
Ray







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