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Re: MUST a collection be returned as an Atom feed?
On Dec 28, 2009, at 4:30 PM, Nikunj R. Mehta wrote:
On Dec 28, 2009, at 5:33 AM, Jan Algermissen wrote:
I have raised the following issue on rest-discuss in various forms
already. Excuse me for bringing it up on this list again. I am just
curious what people here think.
RFC 5023 says:
"Collection - A Resource that contains a set of Member Resources.
Collections are represented as Atom Feeds."[1]
Does that mean that an AtomPub server MUST be (at least) respond to
a GET on a collection URI with an Atom feed
representation?
I am asking because I consider that to be too constraining. The
client should not be able to make such an assumption. It should
discover at runtime that the response is application/atom+xml
rather than expect it to be prior to the request.
In other words is there room for conneg when requesting a
collection? Is that the intended purpose of your question?
Rephrasing the question:
Whay is the sentence "Collections are represented as Atom Feeds" in
RFC 5023?
Is it a MUST requirement for AtomPub servers?
(Or a SHOULD or a hint to client developers?)
Or, rephrasing again:
Could the sentence "Collections are represented as Atom Feeds" be
removed from RFC 5023 without consequences?
Why is it in there at all?
Jan
P.S. I am using that sentence as a stripped down example of a point I
am trying to make. No intention to discuss/question RFC 5023 in
particular.
Nikunj Mehta
http://blog.o-micron.com
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