UWS 0.4

[Guy Rixon]

The post is allowed so that a web browser can delete a job.

Cheers,
Guy

On 12 Jun 2008, at 00:35, Patrick Dowler wrote:

>
> 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:
>
> - POST to the job list (create a job, along with some parameters)
> - GET the quote
> - decide where the output should go (long quote == not my laptop :)
> - POST to the job with dest=<something>
> - POST to the phase
>
> It also just doesn't seem RESTy that POST would delete something.  
> Is there a
> reason for this? A good one?
>
> curious,
>
> -- 
>
> Patrick Dowler
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