On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Peter Karman <[email protected]> wrote: > Zbigniew Lukasiak wrote on 03/03/2009 04:18 PM: > - Show quoted text - >> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Peter Karman <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Zbigniew Lukasiak wrote on 03/03/2009 02:53 PM: >>> >>>>> If you use CatalystX::CRUD::REST, you can do: >>>>> >>>>> # POST /foo -> create new record >>>>> # GET /foo -> list all records >>>>> # PUT /foo/<pk> -> update record >>>>> # DELETE /foo/<pk> -> delete record >>>>> # GET /foo/<pk> -> view record >>>>> # GET /foo/<pk>/edit_form -> edit record form >>>>> # GET /foo/create_form -> create record form >>>>> >>>>> CatalystX::CRUD::REST uses the C::R::REST::ForBrowsers feature of >>>>> 'x-tunneled-method' param to support PUT and DELETE via POST. >>>> And where do the forms submit? I mean what is their action address? >>>> Do they submit to themselves - or does edit_form submit to >>>> /foo/<pk>?x-tunneled-method=PUT and create to /foo both with POST >>>> method? And it is the second - then what do you do when the form >>>> parameters are incorrect and you need to redisplay the form? >>> using the CXC REST API: >>> >>> if you GET /foo/1234, then you must PUT /foo/1234 to save it. >>> (or POST /foo/1234?x-tunneled-method=PUT -- although I always put the >>> x-tunneled-method value in a hidden input body param, not as part of the >>> URL). >> Sure - that was just for clarification of how the PUT is done with browsers >> :) >> >> >>> if you GET /foo/create_form, then you must POST /foo. >>> >>> When the form is redisplayed on validation error, it just retains the >>> original action. >> >> I was just thinking about the possible CRUD REST schemas and it found >> that under that schema you display the same form under two addresses: >> /foo/1234/edit_form and /foo/1234 (in case of the error). And the >> other day I had that idea that perhaps instead of using path part - >> use another parameter so /foo/1234?x-view-method=edit_form would >> render the form and /foo/1234 would render the standard view of the >> object. This way the form would have just one address. >> > > In CXC REST, /foo/1234 is analogous to /foo/1234/view in the RPC format. > It does not return a HTML form. It just returns the object data. I.e., > read-only. So the URLs represent two different things.
But they do represent two views on the same object - one is as you say 'read-only' the other is the form filled with it's values. The same object - two different renderings. That is what I meant. -- Zbigniew Lukasiak http://brudnopis.blogspot.com/ http://perlalchemy.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
