Re: Resource that can be written to once

"Nandana Mihindukulasooriya [email protected] [rest-discuss]" <[email protected]> Wed, 13 Aug 2014 14:07:49 +0200
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Hi Marijn,


'409 Conflict' may be an option but its document says "This cod=
e is used in
situations where the user might be able to resolve the conflic=
t and
resubmit the request." [1] which is not true in your case. So "405 Me=
thod
Not Allowed" might be the best option. Why do you think it is odd to c=
hange
the allowed methods on runtime?  IMHO, when state of the resource cha=
nges,
its interaction could change as well. It is it is even expected, for
=
example, the responses to the OPTIONS method is not cacheable.


Best Regard=
s,
Nandana


[1] - http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-6.5.8




On Thu=
, Jul 31, 2014 at 9:39 AM, [email protected]
[rest-discuss] <res=
[email protected]> wrote:


>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
>
> Let's s=
ay I have a resource /foo that can be written to once.
>
> How should the s=
erver respond to a second attempt?
>
> Basically at this point the method i=
s no longer allowed but it seems odd
> to change the allowed methods at run=
time.
>
> Should I maybe tell the client to GET the /foo resource?
>
>
> Lo=
oking forward to your insights!
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Marijn
>
>  
>

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