Re: [Exist-development] List of collection actions for administration tool

[Dannes W. <di...@ex...>]

I like the RESTfull idea.... 

On 18 Nov 2009, at 16:52 , Adam Retter wrote:

> Well I think we should make use of Restful URI's -
> 
> i.e. HTTP PUT /exist/rest/db/col1
> i.e. HTTP DELETE /exist/rest/db/col2
> 
> That functionality probably already exists to be honest...
> 
> Other things which cannot be expressed directly via HTTP could be done
> via  a script -
> 
> i.e. HTTP GET /exist/rest/db/system/webclient/collection/move?source=/db/col1&destination=/db/col2
> i.e. HTTP GET /exist/rest/db/system/webclient/collection/copy?source=/db/col1&destination=/db/col2
> 
> or maybe you want something more like -
> 
> HTTP GET /exist/rest/db/col1?move&destination=/db/col2
> HTTP GET /exist/rest/db/col1?copy&destination=/db/col2
> 
> 
> If we are doing this in a Restful manner, it is very very important to
> think about the URI scheme from the start before we think about
> anything else.

Kind regards

Dannes

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