On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 09:20:57PM -0400, Christopher Schmidt wrote: > One of the bigger changes in the 0.6 API from an implementation > perspective for clients may well be the use of a content body on DELETE > requests. kleptog found that to be the most difficult part of > implementing the changeset/versioning support for JOSM, I think, and I > think that a number of libraries may make this more difficult than one > would first assume, since DELETE+body is rather unusual. > > There are two different ways to implement an alternative without > requiring changes to other code, neither of which would be particularly > difficult to implement, I don't think: > > * Use ?query=string&args=forinfo > * Use Version:/Changeset: headers. * Use DELETE /api/0.6/way/#id/#version
> Either of these will probably work in a wider variety of HTTP clients, > some of which explicitly don't support including data in a DELETE > 'natively'. And if they support it, it is likely a less well tested future with bigger possibility of bugs. > What HTTP libraries are people using to talk to OSM? Do they easily > support DELETE with content body? Qt support this. cu bart _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
