Hi, We are working on a REST API for the server-side of a graphical modeling platform. Our resources - models, diagrams and elements - are hierarchical by...
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Eric J. Bowman
eric@...
Apr 12, 2012 12:24 am
... I'll take a look at your work, as I've been meaning to look into OpenSocial anyway, vis-a-vis REST of course. But I can't make any promises to cut any...
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Erik Wilde
drethoo
Apr 12, 2012 5:19 am
hello jan. ... the idea is to be able to check for the profile URI to see whether a feed i have discovered supports atompub or not. if it does, i might show an...
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Erik Wilde
drethoo
Apr 12, 2012 5:36 am
hello mark. thanks for the comments! ... good to see we're in basic agreement. ... with atompub i think you're right about 'edit' links in entries, so if i ...
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Jan Algermissen
algermissen1971
Apr 12, 2012 7:12 am
Hi Erik, ... Ok (though I personally would not see a profile as saying something about the resource, but about the payload) Anyhow - have you considered...
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Julian Reschke
julian.reschke@...
Apr 12, 2012 3:49 pm
... Right; that would be consistent with the use of the profile attribute in HTML4. ... Indeed, let's blame Mark for this :-) Seems we need a spec for...
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Erik Wilde
drethoo
Apr 12, 2012 4:06 pm
hello. ... yup, that occurred to me a while ago when i was looking for a spec for the "registered" 'service' relation and there was none, but back then, nobody...
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Mark Nottingham
mnotting
Apr 12, 2012 4:09 pm
IIRC that one and a few other ones got in while it was the Atom link relation registry, which was FCFS (no spec required). Cheers, ... -- Mark Nottingham ...
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Julian Reschke
julian.reschke@...
Apr 12, 2012 4:10 pm
... Well, because it was in the Atom link relation registry before RFC 5988 was approved. ... Not sure about that. It seems you are using "profile" in a very...
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Erik Wilde
drethoo
Apr 12, 2012 4:24 pm
hello jan. ... yes, we have agreement on this. a profile (quoting from the -01 text i am writing now) "are additional semantics that can be used to process a ...
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Erik Wilde
drethoo
Apr 12, 2012 4:39 pm
hello julian. ... i certainly do not intend to use it in a different way, because like you, i do not think that would be a good idea. my current definition is ...
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Julian Reschke
julian.reschke@...
Apr 12, 2012 4:52 pm
... Maybe we need to switch to examples to get a clearer picture. With "profile" I understand that the link *target* is a URI describing the profile, such as...
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Erik Wilde
drethoo
Apr 12, 2012 5:27 pm
hello julian. ... no, the 'profile' link target URI *identifies* the profile in use, and it MAY point to a description (and hopefully will), but it does not...
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Julian Reschke
julian.reschke@...
Apr 12, 2012 5:40 pm
... Yes, sorry for being not precise. ... OK. I don't have a problem with that. The one thing to consider is, as others have pointed out, whether it would make...
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Erik Wilde
drethoo
Apr 12, 2012 6:00 pm
hello julian. ... so i guess the difference here is the following: - 'profile' would just say that a feed is atompub-enabled, but it would not allow you to...
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Rushforth, Peter
prushfor
Apr 12, 2012 6:42 pm
Hi Erik, ... In the case of Atompub, the presence of the app:collection element can be used to POST to the collection. ...
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Dan
danhaywood...
Apr 15, 2012 4:36 pm
If I'm using If-Match with ETag as a way of implementing optimistic locking (which I guess is a pretty standard approach), then should 409 or 412 be used to...
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Erik Wilde
drethoo
Apr 15, 2012 7:32 pm
hello. "The 'profile' Link Relation Type" is now available as version 01 (draft-wilde-profile-link-01) at http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wilde-profile-link....
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Erik Wilde
drethoo
Apr 15, 2012 8:03 pm
hello. ... it seems to me that at that level, discussing "generic" versus "domain" is very binary, and very subjective. for example, to me, atom is both ...
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Erik Wilde
drethoo
Apr 15, 2012 8:11 pm
hello duncan. ... sounds a lot like "profiles"; to me ;-) apart from that, i am wondering how you deal with the formats/types. because it's exactly what we are ...
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Robert Brewer
aminusfu
Apr 16, 2012 1:17 am
... That's a good question. I think the *sense* of the spec is that, if the client sends an If-Match that doesn't match the current state of the resource, the...
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Erik Wilde
drethoo
Apr 16, 2012 5:46 am
hello walter. ... thanks for the pointer to web finger. i am sure there are quite a number of other formats out there using html profiles, maybe it would be ...
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Erik Wilde
drethoo
Apr 16, 2012 7:10 am
hello walter. ... these are link relation types and not profile identifiers, right? i am a bit concerned to see expected media types encoded in link relations,...
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Jan Algermissen
algermissen1971
Apr 16, 2012 7:32 am
Dan, use 412 if a precondition in the request failed 409 if applying the update would result in a conflict (e.g. applying patch results in a conflict) (This is...
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Erik Wilde
drethoo
Apr 16, 2012 7:35 am
hello joern. ... you're saying this as if there was agreement on what DAG and DSP mean. i don't think that's the case. and i don't think that it is a binary ...
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Dan
danhaywood...
Apr 17, 2012 6:28 am
For example, suppose I pass an invalid argument (a -ve quantity of a product when placing an order, say)... what response is appropriate? One suggestion I've...
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Jan Algermissen
algermissen1971
Apr 17, 2012 6:44 am
... Right. 400 is syntactic error, 422 is semantic error Jan...
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Philippe Mougin
pmougin2001
Apr 18, 2012 11:18 pm
Yes, that's what I use too. But note that the description of 400 is being reformulated in httpbis in order to broaden it to encompass what you call semantic...
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Jan Algermissen
algermissen1971
Apr 26, 2012 4:58 pm
Hi, admittedly I completely missed the existence of RTSP[1]. It is a massive spec, sort of a redefined 2616 and stuff on top. I am trying the shortcut here:...
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Mike Kelly
mikekelly876...
Apr 26, 2012 5:01 pm
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Jan Algermissen <jan.algermissen@... ... Or just fixed PUT by not trying to prevent partial updates. That'd be a lot ...
