From RPC to REST, quick design decision, need help

Hello,

Our app currently has an admin/logins/login_by_admin action. It
basically
allows the admin to login as a regular user of the system from the list
of
users in the backend. However, it clutters the logins controller. I was
thinking on ways to clean up this design and make it more RESTful. One
approach is to use the login.new action with an additional param (like
from_admin = true). The other option is to turn login_by_admin into it’s
own
resource and put the logic into its new method. What do you think?

Thanks,

Marcelo.

Why isn`t admin just a role for a user instead of a completely
different “kind” of user?

If they were both the same, you woudnt have any duplication at all and woudnt need any special case logic. If you can’t do this, it’s
better to have a separate resource to login admins, having a special
user clause at the main user’s login controller isn`t great either.

Maurício Linhares
http://alinhavado.wordpress.com/ (pt-br) | http://blog.codevader.com/
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On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Marcelo de Moraes S.