POC: Operation scheduling over the REST api

Alan Santos asantos at redhat.com
Thu Dec 1 20:13:58 UTC 2011


On Dec 1, 2011, at 12:27 PM, Heiko W.Rupp wrote:

>> I assume the 'links' construct is a vestige from xhtml/xml/html?  It's awkward accessing this via javascript - this isn't just a stylistic concern.
> 
> Well, the links follow the AtomPub format (at least their XML representation)[2]. AtomPub defines that a link has <link rel="x" href="x"> and
> is a pretty common standard for links in resources. But yes, the AtomPub protocol seems to take them from html.

That's what I guessed.  

So two questions:  1) Why is AtomPub the right format for XML?  and 2) Assuming the same RESTful access does the JSON format really need to mirror the XML format? 

-alan


Alan Santos
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