Hi Frank,
Thanks you for your explanation!. What we currently do is, using *GET
/analytics/tables/{tableName} *get the whole table, if the table does not
exist, HTTP status will be 404 and the response body will have a message
saying that the table does not exist.
On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 9:03 PM, Frank Leymann <fr...@wso2.com> wrote:
> Hi Gimantha,
>
> it depends on the scenario: if you want to check existence of resource
> it's fine to use a GET on this resource and receive a "404 Not Found".
>
> But the subtlety is that "Not Found" according to HTTP is statement in
> time: you cannot infer that the resource "does not exist", all that 404
> says is that it cannot be found at this point in time, i.e. it maybe found
> later. If your scenario doesn't care about that you are fine.
>
> Furthermore, in case the resource in fact is found, the GET on this
> resource will return the complete table. This might not be acceptable if
> you only want to get an indicator that the exists. The signal for existence
> shouldn't the possibly huge table itself.
>
> Thus, depending on your scenario you may consider a corresponding
> function. By the way, this is completely compliant to the REST style that
> foresees such "processing function resources".
>
>
> Best regards,
> Frank
>
> 2015-02-14 15:01 GMT+01:00 Gimantha Bandara <giman...@wso2.com>:
>
>> Hi Manuranga,
>>
>> Already *GET /analytics/tables/{tableName} *returns 404 if the
>> table doesn't exists. So we will not need a separate API. Thanks for your
>> feedback.
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Manuranga Perera <m...@wso2.com> wrote:
>>
>>> there shouldn't be a separate end point for "is-exists"
>>>
>>> *GET /analytics/tables/{tableName}* - Will return table informing if it
>>> exists and if not it should return 404
>>>
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