Re: Is Django admin's "delete confirmation" considered RESTful?

I did not read the sources of the admin module devoted to deleting an item, but I think the problem is not in the admin interface but in html forms. Html forms allow only GET and POST, but no DELETE and PUT. Given the REST common-sense rule "whenever you POST, ask the user" the admin interface -

Re: Is Django admin's "delete confirmation" considered RESTful?

Thanks Euan - I think that clarifies things. Thanks very much for your responses! Margie On Jul 7, 8:50 am, "euan.godd...@googlemail.com" wrote: > I think in the strict REST sense, it would be best to POST to one URL > with the list of object IDs to delete to set this

Re: Is Django admin's "delete confirmation" considered RESTful?

I think in the strict REST sense, it would be best to POST to one URL with the list of object IDs to delete to set this action up and then redirect to another URL with a GET which asks for confirmation based on the previous setup and then POSTs to delete. This keeps it RESTful in the sense of one

Re: Is Django admin's "delete confirmation" considered RESTful?

Actually, the confirmation page is not accessed via a GET. Using the admin's auth model as an example: the user does a GET to something like www.example.com://admin/auth/user to get a list of users. Then they checkmark the users they want to delete, select the "delete" action, and then click on

Re: Is Django admin's "delete confirmation" considered RESTful?

I'm not entirely sure whether you're asking one question or two here. Firstly, I think that in the RESTful sense, there's nothing wrong with having a confirmation page that uses the same URL to perform an action *providing* the HTTP verb is different. In this case the confirmation page is

Is Django admin's "delete confirmation" considered RESTful?

I have an app that is modeled after the django admin app. In general it seems to me that the admin app is RESTful. However, I am encountering a situation that is similar to the admin apps delete confirmation process, and I'm curious if anyone out there could comment on whether this particular