How do I create a concise and RESTful wizard under MVC?

Question

I try to be as RESTful as possible in building applications but one thing that I\'m never sure about is how to create a wizard-type work flow, be RESTful and concise.

Answer 1

I'm actually less concerned about maintaining REST in a one-shot wizard. REST is most important, I think, with repeatable actions -- you want the url to be basically bookmarkable so that you get back the same view of the data regardless of when you go there. In a multi-step wizard you have dependencies that are going to break this perspective of REST anyway. My feeling is to have a single controller with potentially separate actions or using query parameters to indicate what step you are on. This is how I've structured my activation wizards (which require multiple steps) anyway.