Re: creating collections

Thanks, Steve!  I missed that.  So, we already have an issue http://www.w3.org/2012/ldp/track/issues/36
that covers container creation.
All the best, Ashok

On 1/29/2013 9:51 AM, Steve Speicher wrote:
> Please see ISSUE-36
>
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Wilde, Erik<Erik.Wilde@emc.com>  wrote:
>> hello ashok.
>>
>> On 2013-01-29 2:21 , "Ashok Malhotra"<ashok.malhotra@oracle.com>  wrote:
>>> 1. We need to be able to create and delete collections.
>>> Steve S indicates that there is agreement that the client should be able
>>> to create collections.  This is good,
>>> but we have not agreed on a mechanism to create collections although
>>> there has been a good deal of mail on the subject.  Perhaps we need to
>>> open an issue:  How are Collections Created?
>> maybe an issue would be useful, so that we can focus and track
>> discussions. following a standard REST pattern, you'd take a
>> representation of a collection (containing only the info you need to
>> create a collection, so it would be more of a proto-collection
>> representation than an actual collection), and you'd POST it to a resource
>> that will become the managing resource for that collection. in AtomPub,
>> that would be the workspace. in LDP, if we allow nested collections, that
>> might be a collection. if we have some anchor concept other than a "root
>> collection", then that anchor resource would accept POSTing of collections
>> as well. as a response to a successful creation request, the collection
>> pops into existence on the server, and the server responds with a 201 and
>> a location header that links to the new collection resource.
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> dret.
>>
>>
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