On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Paul Davis <paul.joseph.da...@gmail.com> wrote: > My third thought is that we can be purists or pragmatists, but not > both. We are already not being pure in a number of respects so I find > it a bit disingenuous to claim purism on a given topic while blithely > ignoring concerns on other topics. >
I tend to think query-strings are more pragmatic than headers, even if they take a little more work to code for. I think it takes a more advanced developer to code against headers-based APIs, partly just because they aren't exposed in the browser. Query strings are in the url, so they can even be copied and pasted around. The same holds for Accept headers vs .html or .json file extensions in the URL. However, I think there's an argument that the commit semantics shouldn't be part of defining the resource in this case. Maybe allowing full_commit=true only on the bulk docs query string, since those are post requests anyway. Just thinking out loud. Chris -- Chris Anderson http://jchris.mfdz.com
