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Re: [netmod] Instance-data-format - shall we define etag and last-modified annotation ?

Kent Watsen <kent@watsen.net> Tue, 23 July 2019 16:53 UTC

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Subject: Re: [netmod] Instance-data-format - shall we define etag and last-modified annotation ?
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> The values are associated with a representation of a response
> to a request for some portion of the datastore contents.  E.g., a representation in XML must be a different
> ETag than a JSON representation (of the exact same datastore contents).

AFAIK, this is not required, and definitely not desirable. 

> I suggest new meta-data be defined that has semantics specific to datastore contents, not
> the HTTP representation of the response.

agreed. 

> IMO this meta-data is not really needed inside an instance file, but if included, then the values
> should be associated with the representation (the instance file) and not the datastores.

unsure, but inclined to think that it should be the same value that the target device would return. 


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