From: Brian Warner Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 02:31:49 +0000 (-0700) Subject: webapi.txt: specify replace= behavior on all PUT and POST commands X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/zeppelin?a=commitdiff_plain;h=944ad6508bc8dd58a574071a1088a2ad17de8df7;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git webapi.txt: specify replace= behavior on all PUT and POST commands --- diff --git a/docs/webapi.txt b/docs/webapi.txt index d660bf08..291c9dae 100644 --- a/docs/webapi.txt +++ b/docs/webapi.txt @@ -136,6 +136,12 @@ the vdrive where currently nothing exists. vdrive. Intermediate directories are created on-demand just like with the regular PUT command. + If there was already a child at the given name, this command will replace + the old child with the new one, and will return an HTTP 200 (OK) response + code. If there was not already a child there, it will return 201 (Created). + If you add an "replace=false" query argument, the command will return a 409 + (Conflict) error rather than replacing an existing child. + DELETE $URL This deletes the given file or directory from the vdrive. If it is a @@ -161,6 +167,12 @@ file rather than a directory. specification (rfc2616), this should return a 200 (OK) code when modifying an existing file, and a 201 (Created) code when creating a new file. + If there was already a child at the given name, this command will replace + the old child with the new one, and will return an HTTP 200 (OK) response + code. If there was not already a child there, it will return 201 (Created). + If you add an "replace=false" query argument, the command will return a 409 + (Conflict) error rather than replacing an existing child. + To use this, run 'curl -T localfile http://localhost:8011/vdrive/global/newfile' @@ -175,6 +187,12 @@ than files. the URI of the given directory, although the client is not obligated to do anything with it. + If there was already a child at the given name, this command will replace + the old child with the new one, and will return an HTTP 200 (OK) response + code. If there was not already a child there, it will return 201 (Created). + If you add an "replace=false" query argument, the command will return a 409 + (Conflict) error rather than replacing an existing child. + GET $URL?t=rename-form&name=$CHILDNAME This provides a useful facility to browser-based user interfaces. It @@ -319,12 +337,17 @@ request reaches the server". Use URIs if you want "this particular object". used to upload a single file at a time. To avoid confusion, name= is not allowed to contain a slash (a 400 Bad Request error will result). + If there was already a child at the given name, this command will replace + the old child with the new one. But if you add a "replace=false" argument, + the command will refuse to replace the child, signalling an error instead. + POST $URL t=mkdir name=childname This instructs the node to create a new empty directory. The name of the - new child directory will be included in the form's arguments. + new child directory will be included in the form's arguments. Existing + children are replaced unless a "replace=false" argument is provided. POST $URL t=uri @@ -332,8 +355,9 @@ request reaches the server". Use URIs if you want "this particular object". uri=newuri This instructs the node to attach a child that is referenced by URI (just - like the PUT $URL?t=uri method). The name and URI of the new child - will be included in the form's arguments. + like the PUT $URL?t=uri method). The name and URI of the new child will be + included in the form's arguments. Existing children are replaced unless a + "replace=false" argument is provided. POST $URL t=delete @@ -349,8 +373,9 @@ request reaches the server". Use URIs if you want "this particular object". This instructs the node to rename a child within the given dirnode. The child specified by 'from_name' is removed, and reattached as a child named - for 'to_name'. This is unconditional and will replace any child already - present under 'to_name', akin to 'mv -f' in unix parlance. + for 'to_name'. An existing child at 'to_name' is replaced unless a + "replace=false" argument is provided, making the default behavior similar + to the unix 'mv -f' command. == XMLRPC ==