Yep! Works like a charm, until you have to expose a URI pointing to every combination of cities (or indeed, combination of any parameter set).
And I know (like I said before) you can fall back on "no, just tell the user where to put the parameters and you won't have to do that!" ... which is just re-inventing the RPC -- and satisfying users that don't want to navigate a long session just to find the URI they want, every time they send a request.
>Also, while POST can mean "create", it can also mean "append" or "process some arbitrary request."
Used correctly, it doesn't mean (that the sender is requesting that you) "process some arbitrary request"; it should only be used for non-idempotent operations. Close enough to summarize as "create" (appending is certainly creating something in this context!), and generally, for something to have different effects when repeated, you have to create something. PUT/update and DELETE/delete are idempotent specifically because the changes they make aren't creations.
In any case it's clearly an abuse of the term "very different concept from" in the GGP's comment "And POST/GET/PUT/DELETE is a very different concept from CRUD".
Yep! Works like a charm, until you have to expose a URI pointing to every combination of cities (or indeed, combination of any parameter set).
And I know (like I said before) you can fall back on "no, just tell the user where to put the parameters and you won't have to do that!" ... which is just re-inventing the RPC -- and satisfying users that don't want to navigate a long session just to find the URI they want, every time they send a request.
>Also, while POST can mean "create", it can also mean "append" or "process some arbitrary request."
Used correctly, it doesn't mean (that the sender is requesting that you) "process some arbitrary request"; it should only be used for non-idempotent operations. Close enough to summarize as "create" (appending is certainly creating something in this context!), and generally, for something to have different effects when repeated, you have to create something. PUT/update and DELETE/delete are idempotent specifically because the changes they make aren't creations.
In any case it's clearly an abuse of the term "very different concept from" in the GGP's comment "And POST/GET/PUT/DELETE is a very different concept from CRUD".