I agree with Sean, er i mean Andrea :P that simply using PUT for these
types of services makes sense. The geoserver restconfig api uses the
convention (and i believe this is consistent with the links Andrea posted)
that POST is generally only used when POSTING to a collection in order to
create a new entry where the contents of the collection are the same
"type". WHere as here under the "/services" collection we are talking about
entities of different types and furthermore just one entity of each type.
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 3:21 AM, Andrea Aime
<[email protected]>wrote:
> Sorry, added the links to the references on the usage of POST and PUT
> in the wrong place, they
> were meant to follow my statement about the usage of POST and PUT, that is:
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> As far as I know PUT can be used also for resource creation in REST, the
> discriminant between using POST and PUT is that with POST you don't
> know where the resource is going to end up, while with PUT you already
> know the location at which the resource should be created, see for
> reference:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/630453/put-vs-post-in-rest
> http://jcalcote.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/put-or-post-the-rest-of-the-story/
>
>
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> Cheers
> Andrea
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