G'day everyone,
Having worked on a couple of CMIS clients now I've noticed a recurring pattern
that isn't directly supported by CMIS, but which might be worth consideration
for a future version of the spec. Basically I often find myself writing "find
or create" logic (e.g. for creating a shared folder or configuration document
of some kind), but because there's no way to do this atomically in CMIS the
client side logic ends up being "find, if not found attempt to create, if
duplicate error find again".
Any thoughts on adding an atomic "find or create" service as a requirement for
a future version of the spec?
In the short term, I also wondered whether it'd be worth adding this client
side logic ("find, create, find again on error") to the CMIS client libraries,
so that at least this boilerplate logic isn't repeated across numerous clients.
Any thoughts on that as a stop-gap?
Cheers,
Peter
