Hi Oren. I believe the expected way to retrieve metadata (and effectively an existence check) for a resource in REST
would be to send a HEAD request [1] to the url, rather than to have a separate endpoint.
I think changing the handling to exact matching is fine - I can't think why partial matching is done currently and I
can't see how it makes sense in an HTTP context. As far as I know nothing makes use of partial matching.
[1]
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XUaErakHsoAC&pg=PA98&lpg=PA98&dq=restful+web+services+%22OPTIONS+method+lets%22&source=bl&ots=5jkmCnpNmy&sig=mXt_bcmXcZhoU6hFFm0L5j14IvE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Hf06U--1E7GM7Aad2YHwAw&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=restful%20web%20services%20%22OPTIONS%20method%20lets%22&f=false
On 01/04/14 14:00, Oren Hurvitz wrote:
I tried to add a REST handler at the endpoint "/assets_exist". It turns out
that I can't do that, because REST handlers are searched using partial
string matches, so servers that don't implement the new handler will
mistakenly choose the "/assets" endpoint instead.
For now, I solved the problem by using a different endpoint:
"/get_assets_exist".
For the future, I think that this should be changed so that only full string
matches work. Otherwise each time a new handler is added it will have to
find an endpoint name that isn't a prefix of any current endpoint -- a
difficult and error-prone task. Before I do that, does anyone know of
endpoints that rely on the current behavior (partial string matches)?
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