Chapter 17.7. RESTful Resources in TurboGears

REST is an architectural style, or a way of thinking about application development, first described by Roy Fielding in 2000. Roy was one of the principal authors of HTTP, and REST is a distillation of why he thinks the web works so well in allowing people to create reusable resources.

Here are a few key principles of the REST way of thinking:

  • There should be a universal locator syntax for published resources.

  • Every request/response cycle should be truly atomic, no state memory allowed.

  • The resource should have a set of well-defined operations that apply to every resource in the system.

In HTTP, the URL provides the universal resource identification syntax, Get and Post provide the initial set of well-defined ...

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