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On 10/27/2011 11:04 AM, George Reese wrote:
You know what it has to do with API versioning? It has to do with people proposing bad versioning ideas to support esoteric stuff WHEN THE BASIC STUFF AIN'T THERE YET.
Dude. Calm down. The fact that somebody proposed something you don't agree with doesn't make it a "bad" idea.
curl is the appropriate mechanism for manually interacting with an API for development purpose. A browser is a very limited tool for interacting with the HTTP protocol and should not be the boundary of what an API should support.
When I click on a link in an email or a IM, curl isn't what opens it. Since we try to support HATEOAS it may take a sequence of links to get to where I want to be. Once I open payload #1, curl doesn't allow me to click around. Which is why, I don't think an effort to persuade the developers of the world to abandon browsers for curl as the way to introspect a RESTful web service isn't likely to get very far.
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