Re: Changing representations

Consider the following:

Resource /q1w2e3r4 contains sales information my region.

*** request
GET /resource/q1w2e3r4
accept: text/csv

*** response
200 OK
content-type: text/csv
...
north,south,east,west
100,200,300,200

*** request
PUT /resource/q1w2e3r4
content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
...
north=100&south=200&east=350&west=150

Now what does a GET request using accept" text/csv return?


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On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:39 AM, Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've struggled with this myself, on seeing the same question appear on
> another list I think it's worth posing. I'd appreciate clarification.
>
> Server-side you have a named resource. You PUT something there in a
> given media type, what expectations have you over other media types?
> My feeling was it doesn't matter, as long as the HTTP contract, any
> subsequent GET will give something appropriate. Hopefully the change
> percolates. But although that makes sense, it's kinda vague. The
> interpretation I saw by this guy on a list, trying to follow the spec
> properly, was like there were different buckets hanging of the
> resource, you push some json, the json bucket changes. Does that
> influence the other buckets?
>
> Might have to dig Roy up, but clarification on this would help.
>
> Cheers,
> Danny.
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