Re: UWS 0.4

From: Patrick Dowler <patrick.dowler-at-nrc-cnrc.gc.ca>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:35:18 -0700

I find one part of the UWS a bit odd. It says that DELETE to the job resource deletes it (fine), but that a POST to that resource also deletes it.

When one creates a job (POST to the job list) some parameters can be included (presumably service-specific params). I would have assumed that one could POST more params to the job resource itself and have them treated the same way (at last up until a POST to the phase resource to start it executing).

This would allow a client to, for example:

It also just doesn't seem RESTy that POST would delete something. Is there a reason for this? A good one?

curious,

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