Re: interaction with a bug-tracker LDP service

On 2 Jan 2013, at 16:04, Steve Battle wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Roger Menday [mailto:Roger.Menday@uk.fujitsu.com]
> 
>> Say then, I want to link <Tracker/1/Bug/3> to another (existing)
> resource.
>> 
>> The <Tracker/1/Bug/3;related> collection represents all the :related
> links.
>> I can discover that it requires a ldp:link property to seed the process.
>> 
>> POST to <Tracker/1/Bug/3;related> with "<> ldp:link <Tracker/1/Bug/1> ."
> 
> I'm not clear why you're using POST to create a link to an _existing_
> resource.
> My understanding is that POST is a mechanism to create _new_ resources
> within containers.
> Could the example use PUT or PATCH instead?

This proposal is a way to manage a resource through it's set of links. I have some other material that shows how this can be used to do directed "fine-grained" updates - i.e. then PATCH isn't needed. 

Roger 

> 
> Steve.