Set currently is:
SET ::= "^" STRING ":" ATOM | ARRAY
which seems to be the subset needed for setting JCR property values.
Shouldn't we be able to overwrite nodes as well?
Best regards, Julian
This is as intended: it is modeled after the JCR API: set is for setting
property values and add is for adding properties and nodes. Add should
fail if a property or node exists already.
Yes. But just because the JCR API doesn't have "set" for nodes doesn't
mean it's not a useful operation; and if we want to define a data format
that is not specific to JCR remoting then the restriction doesn't seem
to make sense.
Yes agreed. Just note that the format described on the Wiki page started
out as "JSOP Diff for the Jackrabbit Microkernel". That's why some
things might not be as general as they could.
Internally, SET can always be implemented as atomic variant of
REMOVE-then-ADD.
In general yes. However for the Jackrabbit Microkernel use case this
becomes troublesome wrt. observation.
Michael
