ISSUE-55: Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State (HATEOAS) Compliance

HATEOAS Compliance

Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State (HATEOAS) Compliance

State:

CLOSED

Product:

Linked Data Platform Spec

Raised by:

David Wood

Opened on:

2013-03-15

Description:

This issue was raised by James Leigh on the public-ldp mailing list:

The description of containers does not read like a RESTful interface. I
think the specification should follow the REST guidelines closely.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-ldp-20130307/#linked-data-platform-containers

One possible way to fix this is to:
* Remove ?non-member-properties and ?firstPage query token from
the spec.
* Allow the server to omit some or all container members from the
primary resource description (non-member-properties by default).
* If some membership triples are omitted a link to the first/next
page of membership triples (for each subject/predicate pair)
must be present in the response.

The above still allows small containers to be represented completely in
one response and still allows paging for large containers. However, all
representations (all pages) are linked to from the default description.
By adopting the above the ldp spec would be RESTful.

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Related emails:

1. Re: LDP Issues list maintenance (from lehors@us.ibm.com on 2013-05-06)
2. LDP Issues list maintenance (from lehors@us.ibm.com on 2013-05-06)
3. ldp-ISSUE-65 (FirstPage HATEOAS Compliance): FirstPage and Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State (HATEOAS) Compliance [Linked Data Platform core] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2013-05-06)
4. ldp-ISSUE-64 (Non-member-properties HATEOAS Compliance): Non-member-properties and Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State (HATEOAS) Compliance [Linked Data Platform core] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2013-05-06)
5. Re: ldp-ISSUE-55 (HATEOAS Compliance): Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State (HATEOAS) Compliance [Linked Data Platform core] (from Erik.Wilde@emc.com on 2013-03-15)
6. Re: Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State (from david@3roundstones.com on 2013-03-15)
7. ldp-ISSUE-55 (HATEOAS Compliance): Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State (HATEOAS) Compliance [Linked Data Platform core] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2013-03-15)

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