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Paul Noden commented on SLING-422:
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in addition import will need to be added once my patch is added, suggest
something akin to the following?
:operation=import
:content=[file contents]
> SlingPostServlet: Refactor to execute one operation at a time
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: SLING-422
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-422
> Project: Sling
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Post Servlets
> Reporter: Felix Meschberger
> Assignee: Felix Meschberger
> Priority: Critical
> Fix For: 2.0.0
>
>
> The SlingPostServlet is anything but REST-ful. For example, it is possible to
> have a request for resource /a which at the same might cause a resoure /x/y
> to be moved to /e/f and much nastier things. Providing an accurate response
> to such operations and acting upon such responses is almost impossible if not
> introducing multi-status ...
> Therefore, the SlingPostServlet should be simplified as follows:
> * The servlet is modified to execute a single operation per request, where an
> operation may be create/modify, delete, move and copy. The actual operation
> to execute is indicated by a new parameter ":operation" which can take the
> following values:
> <unset> or empty string - create/modify request
> "delete" - delete current resource
> "move" - move current resource
> "copy" - copy current resource
> In addition, this mechanism could be implemented such, that the actual
> operation might be extensible.
> * All operations act on the current resource - request.getResource(). The
> delete, move and copy operations fail if the current resource is a
> non-existing resource.
> * The distinction between create and just modify depends on the resource: If
> the current resource does not exist yet it is created. Special treatment for
> resource creation happens if the path is
> terminated by a slash (as proposed by Carsten and Roy in earlier messages) or
> by a slash-star (/*, like currently). The name of the newly created node is
> defined as it is today: using special parameters :name, :nameHint and
> well-known content such as title.
> We keep the /* notation to support requests like /*.print.a4.html.
> * Some operations (create, move, copy) handle a parameter ":order", which
> defines the ordering relation of the newly created item (this is the same
> behaviour as in the current implementation)
> * The copy and move operation by default fail if an item already exists at
> the destination. This behaviour may be overwritten by setting the ":replace"
> paramter to "true". This replaces the current "replace" value for the
> :copyFlags and :moveFlags parameter.
> * The copy and move operations require another parameter ":dest", which is
> the destination path name of the resource. The operation fails if the
> parameter is missing.
> * The ":redirect" parameter causes the client to be redirected to the desired
> target in case the operation was successfull. This is the same behaviour as
> today.
> * The ":status" parameter causes the HTTP status code to be
> non-standards-compliant: If the parameter value is "browser", that status
> code is always 200/OK, even in case of failure. Otherwise the status code
> will reflect the actual status.
> * Regardless of the ":status" parameter value, the response is always the
> complete run-down of the operation executed with the actual status code and
> eventual exceptions - unless of course if the client has been redirected
> after successfull operation and instructed to so by the :redirect parameter.
> This is the same behaviour as today.
> * Run-Down of some status codes expected:
> 200/OK - if :status==browser or if the operation succeeded
> 201/CREATED - required by a successful move or copy, when the destination
> did not exist yet. Also sent when the current resource was
> created
> 404/NOT FOUND - if the current resource is missing for copy, move, delete
> 412/PRECONDITION FAILED - if the destination for the copy or move
> operation exists and the :replace parameter is not set to true
> (this is consistent with the WebDAV spec for COPY/MOVE in this
> situation).
> 302/FOUND - aka temporary redirect, if the operation succeeded and the
> :redirect parameter is set
> 500/INTERNAL SERVER ERROR - in case of any processing error,
> e.g. an exception being thrown
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