our API, like most of the popular "REST" APIs, is not REST as defined by Roy Fielding
Other APIs may be imperfect implementations of the ideal, but Rdio's made no attempt to look anything like REST. The complaint wasn't about adhering to a spec, but simply inaccurate nomenclature.
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our API, like most of the popular "REST" APIs, is not REST as defined by Roy Fielding
Other APIs may be imperfect implementations of the ideal, but Rdio's made no attempt to look anything like REST. The complaint wasn't about adhering to a spec, but simply inaccurate nomenclature.
How is it any more inaccurate than: http://www.flickr.com/services/api/request.rest.html
Not to brag, but at least the Rdio API doesn't allow non-idempotent calls over GET.
It's not. But that doesn't make either of them right. I called Flickr on this 3 years ago before anyone actually visited my blog: http://morethanseven.net/2008/02/21/sorry-but-the-flickr-api...