liangsteve
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10 years ago Response: We are following the OData (v.3.0) pattern here, including the query filters. We are not inventing our own pattern. And in fact, we believe we followed all the RESTful rules. [Masse, Mark. REST API design rulebook. " O'Reilly Media, Inc.", 2011.]
We addressed this issue in the OGC Crystal City meeting, and there is a recording for the Working Group meeting as well.
[NOTE: This is from https://github.com/OGC-IoT/ogc-iot-api/issues/15. The above link has more than one issues. In order to make it easier to track, I decide to split them into individual issues]
About Data Model:
**One of most important things is, SensorThings API is based on REST principles. However, some cases in this document shows it does NOT follow a pure REST way. For example, in Section 4, I understand SensorThings API works in a similar way as OWS - It's a soap -like fashion, not REST. It normally be considered to be too heavy for resource-constrained devices. in Section 4.1, REST "verbs" are based on basic HTTP methods, which are considered universal. It is normally not allowed to add own vocabulary, such as filters.