• From: Peter Coppens <pc.subscriptions@g...>
• To: "Scott, Christopher" <christopher.scott@f...>
• Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 13:06:10 +0100

The info at http://bitworking.org/news/296/How-To-Do-RESTful-Partial-Updates
might be relevant.

Hth,

Peter


> From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>
> Reply-To: <elharo@m...>
> Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:35:43 -0800
> To: "Scott, Christopher" <christopher.scott@f...>
> Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
> Subject: Re:  RESTful XML for updates?
> 
> Scott, Christopher wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> I'm putting together a RESTful webservice and I wanted to get
>> some input about how one would design XML resource representations.  The
>> question has to deal with designing the resource with updates in mind.
>> I've googled for examples but most articles outline what a resource
>> should look like, but not how it should be updated.
>> 
>> I would like to be able to update a representation without having to PUT
>> the entire resource representation back to the server.  For example,
>> consider a simple resource which resides at a URL /Widget/001
>> 
>> <Widget>
>>   <Id>0FAB7894C</Id>
>>   <CreatedDate>2009-03-05</CreatedDate>
>>   <State>INSPECTED</State>
>>   <Color>Blue</Color>
>>   <Whatsists>
>>     <Whatsist href="/Whatsist/1002"/>
>>     <Whatsist href="/Whatsist/1002"/>
>>   </Whatsists>
>> </Widget>
>> 
>> I'd like the client to be able to change the color or state of this
>> widget to, say REJECTED, but not be able to change the id, or the
>> CreatedDate. 
> 
> Don't be afraid of having lots of URLs. In this case, I would also
> define a URL at /Widget/001/Color to which you could PUT just the color.
> 
> I'm not sure about the best answer as to indicating which fields are
> updateable. perhaps a separate custom document indicating this?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo@m...
> Refactoring HTML Just Published!
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321503635/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA
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• References:
  • Re: RESTful XML for updates?
    • From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>