Re: [scim] Request for Input

+1
Rather make patch mandatory before adding functionality to PUT and DELETE. Just for simplicity.
/ Erik

On Mar 28, 2013, at 2:10 PM, Kelly Grizzle wrote:

PATCH was added specifically to address the “changing membership of a large group” use case.  The POST/DELETE to the members endpoint was considered when looking into PATCH, but unfortunately this does not work in the general case.  Specifically, this only works if the list elements have a unique identifier, so it fell apart when trying to apply this to adding/removing addresses (which do not have a unique identifier).

I’m not convinced that we need to add another mechanism to solve this use case, but I do agree that PATCH could be simplified.

--Kelly

From: scim-bounces@ietf.org<mailto:scim-bounces@ietf.org> [mailto:scim-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Phil Hunt
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 7:02 PM
To: Alexandre Santos
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Subject: Re: [scim] Request for Input

I think this may fit in with our discussion of adjusting PATCH to work better with multi-value and complex attributes (ticket 18).

So far, we've been avoiding extended paths that go within the Resource entity (e.g. to address specific attributes).

If you were to do the item below, I think you would have to add the attribute name to the path at the very least.

PUT /Groups/<groupid>/members/Users/<userid>

Still I think that may have problems if the member is actual a URL rather then a simple UUID.

Phil

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On 2013-03-27, at 4:01 PM, Alexandre Santos wrote:

For groups with many users (>10k) it becomes problematic to do POSTs or PUTs. The only alternative would be PATCH. However PATCH is not mandatory.

For this reason we would like to request your input for the following proposal: allow membership changes via PUT and DELETE.

For this the PUT and DELETE commands would be in the format:
PUT /Groups/<groupId>/user/<userId> - to add a user to a group
DELETE /Groups/<groupId>/user/<userId> - to remove the user from the group

Thank you,

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