Re: Operations on containers

On 19 Oct 2012, at 19:06, Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com> wrote:

> Henry - where's the container?

In the use case below the container would have been http://data.fm/

But thinking about it, one should not PUT a new resource into a container,
because one might overwrite something existing there before. One should really
POST it.

> 
> On 19/10/12 17:38, Henry Story wrote:
>> 
>> On 19 Oct 2012, at 18:32, Ashok Malhotra <ashok.malhotra@oracle.com
>> <mailto:ashok.malhotra@oracle.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>> If I have another usecase.  I have an, already created, resource R
>>> which has a URI and I
>>> want to put it in a container C.  Is that possible
>> 
>> it should be.
>> 
>> you put
>> 
>> <http://mydomain.com/foaf#me> a foaf:Person .
>> 
>> to
>> 
>> <http://data.fm/friends>
>> 
>> then you would have
>> 
>> <http://mydomain.com/foaf#me> a foaf:Person .
>> 
>> in
>> 
>> <http://data.fm/friends>
>> 
>> if you PUT
>> 
>> <#me> a foaf:Person
>> 
>> to
>> 
>> <http://data.fm/friends>
>> 
>> Then you'll have that resources  contain
>> 
>> <http://data.fm/friends#me> a foaf:Person .
>> 
>> 
>>> or would the conflation of
>>> the container URI and resource URI prevent that?
>> 
>> The new resource you PUT to, would now contain a metnion of the resource R.
>> 
>> 
>>> Or would the URI of the resource in
>>> the container just point to R which could have a different URI?
>> 
>> The above should be the case. If it is not then one should open an issue.
>> 
>> Henry
>> 
>> 
>>> All the best, Ashok
>>> 
>>> On 10/19/2012 9:22 AM, Arnaud Le Hors wrote:
>>>> "Steve Battle" <steve.battle@sysemia.co.uk> wrote on 10/19/2012
>>>> 08:44:36 AM:
>>>> 
>>>> > It's my understanding that The Opacity Axiom
>>>> > <http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Axioms.html#opaque> applies only to
>>>> clients
>>>> > attempting to pick apart a URI, rather than to the server.
>>>> >
>>>> 
>>>> Indeed, but I'm not sure clients could live without knowing the magic
>>>> involved in this scenario and even more so in the case of creating a
>>>> resource using PUT.
>>>> --
>>>> Arnaud  Le Hors - Software Standards Architect - IBM Software Group
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