On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Karl Guggisberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > just wondering why DELETE /api/0.6/[node|way|relation]/#id isn't idempotent, > i.e. > why DELETE(primitive) where primitive.visible=false will lead to 410 Gone > instead of 200 OK?
I would argue that it is idempotent - no matter how many times you call the method, the end result is that the state of the system is the same (i.e. the object is still deleted). Whether the response you get changes or not isn't the same thing, and isn't considered to be part of the "state" of the system. Happy for someone to tell me that I'm wrong though :-) Cheers, Andy > It leads to aborted changesets, i.e. > PUT /api/0.6/changeset/#id ( > DELETE node where node.visible == false on the server > ) > which result in 410 Gone - not one of the defined error codes for > PUT /api/0.6/changeset/#id. > > Regards > Karl > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
