Hi Melanie,
I think this is because the parsed RDF data do not contain any
information (rdf triples) about the parsed id
http://developer.yahoo.com/javascript/howto-proxy-falseaddress.htm
I will add a check that ensures that a BAD_REQUEST is thrown in those cases.
best
Rupert
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Melanie Reiplinger
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Alessandro and all.
>
> Today we found a strange behaviour in one of my tests that uses update
> functionality of the entityhub/entity. When trying to update a non-existing
> entity ( = erroneous or non-existing id), an error code 304 (Not Modified)
> is returned.
> This makes my test notify me of a success, although intuitively, one would
> think of this as a fail (since I tried to update something that does not
> exist).
>
> curl -i -X PUT -H "Content-Type:application/rdf+xml" -T someEntity.rdf
> "http://lnv-89012.dfki.uni-sb.de:9001/entityhub/entity?id=http://developer.yahoo.com/javascript/howto-proxy-falseaddress.html&create=false";
> HTTP/1.1 100 Continue
>
> HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified
> Server: Jetty(6.1.x)
>
> Best,
> melanie
>
>
> Am 28.06.2012 08:13, schrieb Fabian Christ:
>
>> 2012/6/27 Alessandro Adamou<[email protected]>:
>>>
>>> So far I've made these methods return 303 See Other with the created
>>> resource, basically because I wanted browsers to automatically redirect
>>> to
>>> that URL when the ontology is added using the HTML form. But I've been
>>> thinking that perhaps returning a 201 CREATED would be more appropriate
>>> on
>>> the REST side.
>>
>> I think 201 is the right way to go. The response of a POST just tells
>> you that the resource was created and optionally where it was created
>> using the Location header.
>>
>> You can also use 303 and hope that the client interprets it correctly.
>> But this response may not be the right one for all clients. Another
>> client than a browser may not need the redirect and will perhaps be
>> confused.
>>
>> Therefore, the 201 is IMO the best solution and instead implement the
>> redirect separately.
>>
>> Best,
>> - Fabian
>
>
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