So it may simply be that extraction-from-dataset-oriented services can
never be truly RESTful?
I fear so.
Having said that, if we take a feature-centric approach then one might
consider that a dataset (or "data granule" in NERC Data Grid parlance)
contains a finite number of features, each with its own id. It might
be possible to have a RESTful approach to getting these features, but
I bet it wouldn't take long for the REST model to break down. Is it
really possible to identify in advance all the possible features that
might be extracted from a dataset? I doubt it, even for simple cases
such as a satellite image.
Jon
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