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Re: [apps-discuss] more feature requests, was: JSON patch: "test" operation

Sam Johnston <samj@samj.net> Fri, 30 December 2011 14:06 UTC

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From: Sam Johnston <samj@samj.net>
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:05:39 +0100
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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] more feature requests, was: JSON patch: "test" operation
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On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>wrote;wrote:

> On 2011-12-30 12:36, Sam Johnston wrote:
> > ...
>
>>    Of course that depends on how you define the lifetime of a resource.
>>    Does a resource which currently doesn't have a retrievable
>>    representation "exist"?
>>
>>    Technically, PATCH can work for creating an initial mapping as well.
>>
>> That's a contrived interpretation — is it something we want to support?
>> I'd rather a PATCH throw a 4xx error if a resource didn't exist... an
>> empty PUT would create a resource that could then be PATCHed, no?
>> ...
>>
>
> It probably belongs into the description of the patch format.
>

Agreed.


>  I don't see how requiring an empty PUT makes things better, though.
>

It would prevent misplaced PATCHes from creating new resources, while still
allowing you to build up a resource from scratch with PATCHes. Maybe I'm
being pedantic, but I thought that's what standards groups were for ;)

Sam

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