Re: How to do RESTful SEARCH (was Re: Adding POST capability to atom:link)

["Mark Baker" <distobj@xxxxxxx>]

On 11/2/06, Lisa Dusseault <lisa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is an interesting assertion about REST.  I don't yet agree with it as
> stated though I might after further discussion and elaboration.  To provide
> a possible counter-example, I always found the HTTP SEARCH proposal
> <http://www.greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-reschke-webdav-search-latest.html>
> to be RESTful because
>  - The results of a search are returned as a set of resource identifiers

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by that Lisa, but AFAICT, the
results of a SEARCH request does not have an identifier.

A RESTful solution would be publish a form that could be used by a
client to construct a URI that would return the search results (with
GET, of course).

Cheers,

Mark.