Re: 409 Conflict - exposing more details

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, ...

....Roy

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