Article:		Solr: Indexing XML with Lucene and REST
Subject:		Where is REST?
Date:		2006-08-10 06:10:48
From:		SylvainH
Interesting article as I have always wondered how to use Lucene to index XML documents. However what is that to do with REST? Using HTTP GET and POST does not make things REST. Having URLs as: http://localhost:8983/solr/update http://localhost:8983/solr/select Is also not REST. - Sylvain

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• Where is REST?
  2006-08-22 12:04:13 Bertrand Delacrétaz [Reply]
  
  I agree that Solr's interface cannot be categorized as "pure" REST, it would have been more correct to say "RESTful" or something like that.

  
  
  
  

  • Where is REST?
    2006-09-17 19:44:25 Taylor Cowan [Reply]
    
    I think most people understood REST in the looser sense, as wikipedia explains...

    
    "The term is also often used in a looser sense to describe any simple interface that uses XML (or YAML, JSON, plain text) over HTTP without an additional messaging layer such as SOAP."