Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of Ticket #38521, comment 9
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- 10/28/2016 02:14:16 AM (9 years ago)
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Ticket #38521, comment 9
v2 v3 17 17 While it is true that `_envelope` is a workaround for this behavior, in order to find that out, first you have to dig through Google/specs to figure out what is going on. Nobody wants to do that: APIs should make life easy for their consumers and the rest of the code that needs to interoperate with them. Therefore, in my opinion this decision should be made based on minimizing the expected number of future frustrated developer-hours. 18 18 19 The argument for leaving the redirect in place is for resource purity: a givenREST resource will now be available at 2 different URLs. I'm not aware of any long-term practical consequences due to introducing this impurity.19 The argument for leaving the redirect in place is for resource purity: if the redirect is removed, this REST resource will now be available at 2 different URLs. I'm not aware of any long-term practical consequences due to introducing this impurity.