FW: draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-11: How do I create a Media Entry from an Entry?

["Lindsley Brett-ABL001" <Brett.Lindsley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Lindsley Brett-ABL001 
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 5:47 AM
To: 'Sylvain Hellegouarch'
Subject: RE: draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-11: How do I create a Media
Entry from an Entry?

I thought about that, but having a special case for a specific mime type
does not seem like a good solution. Brett.

-----Original Message-----
From: Sylvain Hellegouarch [mailto:sh@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 5:44 AM
To: Lindsley Brett-ABL001
Cc: atom-protocol Protocol
Subject: Re: draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-11: How do I create a Media
Entry from an Entry?

Can't you embed the media resource within the entry atom:content element
in that case ?

- Sylvain

Lindsley Brett-ABL001 wrote:
> The system I am designing needs to create a Media Entry from an Entry.
> That is, I need to post an entry to a collection and have the
collection
> create a media entry (I do not want the entry to be added to the
> collection as a member entry).
> 
> Section 9.5 of the spec clearly indicates that if a client posts a
mime
> type of application/atom+xml to a collection, a member entry is
created.
> If any other mime type is posted, a media resource and media link
entry
> is created. How do I post an entry and create a media resource/media
> link entry? The issue I see with the spec is the post operation
> semantics are mime-type dependent.
> 
> The reason I need to do this is the entry I have is signed, thus, I
can
> not add it as a member entry because the server may change the entry
> (e.g. create it's own ID, etc.), which will break the signature. 
> 
> The solution I have prototyped is:
> - Posting an entry to the collection adds the entry to the collection
as
> a member. The server may have additional semantics such as changing
the
> ID, etc.
> - Posting an entry (or any other mime type) to a link called
> "edit-media" creates a media link entry regardless of mime type.
> 
> Brett Lindsley
> Motorola Labs
> Applications Research Center
>