Separate thread please.
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Jody Garnett <[email protected]>wrote:
> As long as we are talking REST; I got to talk to a few GeoServer users
> over coffee and they indicated that the REST api was not "complete" with
> respect to letting them back up and restore a configuration outside of
> their app. Apparently for managing styles they could successfully remove a
> style, in order then replace it with an older version. But for many of the
> other resource types there was no way to remove and replace.
>
> They assumed that this was obvious and we would be working on it; I very
> much requested a bug report and patch.
>
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> Jody Garnett
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> On Thursday, 12 July 2012 at 9:53 AM, Justin Deoliveira wrote:
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Andrea Aime <[email protected]
> > wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Juan Marín Otero <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> Andrea / Justin,
>
> Thanks for the feedback, I actually went back and forth with this a bit
> but ended up doing it the way the patch reflects and I don't even remember
> my reasoning but yours is sound, this should be an easy change. Am I
> reading correctly in that you consider that POST should not be used for any
> of these additional resources?
>
>
> Err.. I guess not. I mean, when a resource location is 100% predictable
> and there is even a finite set of them,
> POST seems overkill. Just my two cents, I'm not a REST guru
>
>
> To reiterate my take I think post should be used when you have a
> homogeneous collection of items that has no fixed size. I don't think any
> of new endpoints meet this criteria.
>
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
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