On 14/11/2008, at 10:07 AM, Noah Slater wrote:
I did some digging to see what else is out there:
* http://intertwingly.net/blog/2008/02/21/APP-Level-Patch
* http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2008/02/15/restful-partial-
updates/
* http://www.snellspace.com/wp/?p=895
* http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2008JanMar/
0316.html
* http://www.snellspace.com/wp/?p=902
I think I agree that if this was to hit CouchDB it should be done
via the PATCH
method, makes the most sense given the context.
My only concern with PATCH is that it isn't HTTP 1.1. When I was
working with WebDAV we continually had problems with proxies that
didn't deal with non-HTTP-1.1 methods.
IMO the only other alternative is a POST with either a content-type,
although I feel uneasy about that if the content actually *is* JSON,
or a query parameter.
Alternatively you could use a POST to an extended URL, but that
interferes with attachments. And as I understand it, that would only
truly qualify as REST if it was included in a document e.g.
discoverable rather than specified.
Antony Blakey
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