The info at http://bitworking.org/news/296/How-To-Do-RESTful-Partial-Updates
might be relevant.
Hth,
Peter
> From: Elliotte Harold <>
> Reply-To: <>
> Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:35:43 -0800
> To: "Scott, Christopher" <>
> Cc: <>
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] RESTful XML for updates?
>
> Scott, Christopher wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm putting together a RESTful webservice and I wanted to get
>> some input about how one would design XML resource representations. The
>> question has to deal with designing the resource with updates in mind.
>> I've googled for examples but most articles outline what a resource
>> should look like, but not how it should be updated.
>>
>> I would like to be able to update a representation without having to PUT
>> the entire resource representation back to the server. For example,
>> consider a simple resource which resides at a URL /Widget/001
>>
>> <Widget>
>> <Id>0FAB7894C</Id>
>> <CreatedDate>2009-03-05</CreatedDate>
>> <State>INSPECTED</State>
>> <Color>Blue</Color>
>> <Whatsists>
>> <Whatsist href="/Whatsist/1002"/>
>> <Whatsist href="/Whatsist/1002"/>
>> </Whatsists>
>> </Widget>
>>
>> I'd like the client to be able to change the color or state of this
>> widget to, say REJECTED, but not be able to change the id, or the
>> CreatedDate.
>
> Don't be afraid of having lots of URLs. In this case, I would also
> define a URL at /Widget/001/Color to which you could PUT just the color.
>
> I'm not sure about the best answer as to indicating which fields are
> updateable. perhaps a separate custom document indicating this?
>
>
> --
> Elliotte Rusty Harold
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