tuskar

HTTP PUT Support is not HTTP Spec Compliant

Bug #1227832 reported by Martyn Taylor on 2013-09-19

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	tuskar	Won't Fix	High	Petr Blaho

Bug Description

The current implementation of PUT supports partial updates. This needs changing to make PUT completely idempotent.

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote on 2013-10-01:

Or switch to PATCH.

Changed in tuskar:
status:	New → Triaged
importance:	Undecided → High

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Martyn Taylor (martyntaylor) wrote on 2013-10-02:

Sure, though PATCH isn't in the spec at all. I'd like to support both methods if possible. Obviously PUT has it's issues with the way we are using it atm wrt to collections and partial updates, but I think we can be smart about how we model the resource representations to avoid such things. But your right dropping PUT and supporting PATCH would be an easy route.

We have a blueprint for adding PATCH here: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/tuskar/+spec/http-patch-support