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Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 20:35:11 +0100
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Subject: Re: RESTful document structure
From: Robert Newson <rnewson@apache.org>
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REST does not require that you use only one type of document per
database. Even if it did, I'd strongly advise violating a rule as
silly as that.

Put whatever documents into your database as you please.

B.

On 9 July 2011 19:39, Johnny Weng Luu <johnny.weng.luu@gmail.com> wrote:
> Since CouchDB is implementing a RESTful API, doesn't that mean I wanna put
> all documents of the same type in their own database?
>
> eg.
>
> POST http://localhost/users
> GET http://localhost/users/1
> PUT http://localhost/users/1
> DELETE http://localhost/users/1
>
> POST http://localhost/threads
> GET http://localhost/threads/1
> PUT http://localhost/threads/1
> DELETE http://localhost/threads/1
>
> Rather than putting them all in one big database (http://localhost/my_app).
>
> Doesn't a 100% RESTful approach mean that the former is more correct?
>