Re: issue: Collection Document Fidelity

[Robert Sayre <mint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting "S. Mike Dierken" <mdierken@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

> >
> > "Hypermedia is the engine of application state", and it says I have ten
> > posts, but really I only have nine because one is a 404.
> A broken link might be due to the resource not having been created yet, or
> might be due to having been removed in the past.
> Distributed systems have latency and supporting 'broken links' allows for
> parts to continue to operate while the system as whole eventually arrives at
> 'consensus'.
>

I understand REST, and why broken links are a feature of the Web. My concern is
that client developers will get bug reports as a result of the chaotic server
organization that the current spec allows.

Robert Sayre