Re: MKCOL for making collections

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net> wrote:
> ISSUE-36: Can applications create new containers?
>
> We cannot make a collection by POSTing a doument on a collection, since that
> creates a resource. We therefore would need a different HTTP Method to do this.
>

Why can't we do this?  A Container/Collection IS a resource.  So
therefore POST'ing the representation of it seems like the most
obvious way to create one.

> I suggest MKCOL from WebDAV, since it is already defined.
>
>
>    http://restpatterns.org/HTTP_Methods/MKCOL
>
>
> The content of the body, could be Triples that describe things
> that can be put into the collection. As it happens that is not
> defined yet it seems, so we can define it.
>
>   Any thoughts on that?  I'll try implementing that.
>

Seems like we'd have to dig into more of what the semantics of that
verb says [1] but feels a little like we'd have to adapt more of
WebDAV instead of just reusing the verb and giving it our own special
meaning.

[1] - http://www.webdav.org/specs/rfc2518.html#METHOD_MKCOL

> Henry
>
> Social Web Architect
> http://bblfish.net/
>



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- Steve

Received on Tuesday, 22 January 2013 15:18:00 UTC