Re: PUT with no entity (architecture question)

[Rhett Sutphin]

Hi Kevin,

On Jan 14, 2008, at 8:38 AM, Kevin Conaway wrote:
Are you overriding allowPut() in your Resource class?  You need to  
do as such:

@Override
public boolean allowPut() {
 return true;
}

I should have been more clear -- the scheme I described works fine if  
there's an entity provided to the PUT.  Any entity at all will do -- I  
have the Resource#storeRepresentation implementation just ignore it.

The specific code which returns 400 for empty entities is in  
Resource#handlePut (starting at line 567 in 1.1-M1):

        if (canPut) {
            if (getRequest().isEntityAvailable()) {
                put(getRequest().getEntity());

                // HTTP spec says that PUT may return
                // the list of allowed methods
                updateAllowedMethods();
            } else {
                getResponse().setStatus(
                        new Status(Status.CLIENT_ERROR_BAD_REQUEST,
                                "Missing request entity"));
            }
        }

Thanks,
Rhett