On Feb 14, 2011, at 8:02 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: > in a project I'm currently working on, my server returns 409 Conflict when trying to DELETE a resource that still has strong references from other resources -- so what I want to tell the client is that you can't DELETE resource A as long as resource B references it. > > Now, with close coupling between client and server this can easily be communicated in the response body, be it JSON or XML. > > However, I was wondering whether this use case is common enough to standardize it? Maybe with a link relation? A link relation makes sense. What would you call it? required-by, dependency-of, bound-to, ... ....RoyReceived on Monday, 14 February 2011 19:03:13 GMT
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