It does make sense, but it isn't an ideal use-case for riak.  Eventual
consistency means that existence checking under partition is always
going to be a bit fraught.

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Vincenzo Vitale
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Suppose I want to just store keys in a bucket without any body, this make
> sense in scenarios where the key completely identify the entity. Is it
> possible to use the riak http api without including the content-type header?
>
> Looking at the http specifications, content–type is not mandatory or
> suggested when the body is empty:
>
> http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec7.html#sec7.2.1
>
> and it's probably a good argument to say that if the entity message is empty
> then the content type doesn't really make sense.
>
> Personally I think that just the existence of an http entity - body or not
> body – is sufficient to justify a "type"; it's unfortunate that any other
> higher type (entity type maybe?) - decoupled from what is defined as content
> - exist in the spec.
>
> Framework like spray are quite strict about this, not setting any content
> type when the content is empty:
>
> https://github.com/spray/spray/blob/master/spray-http/src/main/scala/spray/http/HttpEntity.scala#L74
>
> how to deal with such situation? Adding a fake content because of this data
> store constraint doesn't seems right.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vincenzo.
>
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