This is not necessarily about Abdera, but about the Atom Publishing Protocol in
general regarding entry Ids. I know there are some people on the mailing list
who have developed their sites using Abdera and Atom. Are you storing the
Entry Ids in a database or other structure? I was wondering how exactly to
handle editing a resource.
I guess I am wondering how to ensure that the link during an edit of a resource
is infact that Entry itself the client is trying to edit.
Taken from an article online just for reference:
PUT /blog/entries/1 HTTP/1.1
Host: example.org
Content-Type: application/atom+xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: nnnn
If-Match: "/blog/entries/1?1"
If-Unmodified-Since: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:40:03 GMT
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"; >
<id>tag:example.org,2006:/blog/entries/1</id>
<title>Atom-Powered Robots Run Crazy</title>
<link href="http://example.org/2003/12/13/atom03"/>
<link rel="edit" href="http://example.org/blog/entries/1"; />
<updated>2006-08-12T13:40:03Z</updated>
<author><name>John</name></author>
<summary>Some different text.</summary>
</entry>
How should it know that
/blog/entries/1
and the entry
<id>tag:example.org,2006:/blog/entries/1</id>
Mean the same? In this case the Id happens to be the URL of the entry but from
what I have read the id does not have to be any part of the URL. If someone
were to do a PUT to the same URL but with this ID (2007 instead of 2008)
<id>tag:example.org,2007:/blog/entries/1</id>
Does it overwrite the id?
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