Re: Precondition add-must-be-new-label

Thank you Geoff. I wrongly interpreted the "set" operation as
replacing the label-name-set of a version with a singleton
containing the provided new label name.

Regards,

Werner.

Geoffrey M Clemm wrote:
> 
> The add-must-be-new precondition only applies if DAV:add is specified in
> the LABEL request (i.e. you want it to fail if the label is already
> applied to some version).
> 
> You use DAV:set in the LABEL request if you want to move the label from
> one version to another.
> 
> Cheers,
> Geoff
> 
> Werner wrote on 07/14/2006 12:58:41 PM:
> 
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The add-must-be-new precondition of the LABEL method makes it
>> impossible to move a label. Moving a label requires a remove
>> followed by an add, which are two round-trips. Instead of
>> having the precondition, the postcondition label-must-be-unique
>> would provide the same data integrity, while avoiding the
>> extra round-trip.
>>
>> An additional advantage is that the move would be atomic. A
>> remove followed by an add is not. The impact of a failure in
>> between can be dramatic.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Werner.
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>>

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