DATA UNIQUED BY CANONICAL URL FOR REST APPLICATION

摘要

Pieces of an entity's data set can be related with each other using a canonical Uniform Resource Locator (URL). If a server returns pieces of an entity's data record to a client within multiple separate REST-based responses, the client can discern from the canonical URL that those pieces relate to the same entity. In response to each REST-based request from a client, a server returns, with the client-requested data, a canonical URL that uniquely identifies that data's entity. A client can receive the canonical URL with the data that the server returns. If the canonical URLs returned along with data items in separate requests match, then the client determines that those data items pertain to the same entity. If the client determines that separately received data items pertain to the same entity, then the client can merge those data items together into a unified record that the client stores locally.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
storing, at a server computing device, in association with first data that pertains to a first entity, a first Uniform Resource Locator (URL) that is not associated with any entity other than the first entity; receiving, at the server computing device, from a client computing device, a first Representational State Transfer (REST)-based request that asks for at least a part of the first data; and in response to the first REST-based request, sending, to the client computing device, a response that contains both the first URL and the part of the first data for which the first REST-based request asks.