Re: HTTP PATCH?

On 3/24/10 10:06 AM, "Steve Harris" <steve.harris@garlik.com> wrote:
> My (admittedly brief) reading of the PATCH semantics are that it would
> be a more appropriate verb to use inplace of/in addition to POST for
> additive updates.

I see it differently.  The semantics of POST are to accept the entity
enclosed as a 'subordinate'.  The analogy of the relationship between a file
and a directory is used to explain what is meant by a subordinate.  This
suggests an additive operation.  The semantics of PATCH - on the other hand
- are actually more inline with the general intent of the SPARQL Update
language itself, since it says "With PATCH, however, the enclosed entity
contains a set of instructions describing how a resource currently residing
on the origin server should be modified to produce a new version"

So it seems to me that the PATCH operation is equivalent to a SPARQL Update
request at 'graph-level' granularity and that additive operations on an RDF
graph (i.e. POST currently) are a subset of this.

-- Chime


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