State Token (cont’d)
Characteristics of State Tokens
- Self-Describing. By inspecting the state token it is possible to determine:
- what kind of state token it is (e.g., lock token)
- what resource(s) it applies to
- what state it represents
- Client Generable. Clients should be able to generate a state token without having first communicated with a server (though they will need access to the state of the resource)