On 14/11/2008, at 2:32 PM, Noah Slater wrote:
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:32:18PM +1030, Antony Blakey wrote:
You would want to allow partial updates in a bulk operation, so any
packaging would need to be usable in that context as well. Given
updates
need to be handled separately, maybe deletions should be as well.
...
"PUT": [
...
"PATCH": [
...
"DELETE": [
We shouldn't be tunneling verbs though media types, this is
antithetical to the
principals of REST and would harm all manner of possible
intermediary clients.
I'm not tunneling verbs, I'm just re-using the names of the methods
that would normally be used as selectors. I wasn't implying anything
more than that.
Couch's bulk operation already has this issue. You delete a document
using the DELETE verb, yet in a bulk operation you set the "_deleted"
special attribute. That is in effect tunneling the DELETE, using a
different representation, within a POST.
Antony Blakey
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