On May 14, 2009, at 11:35 AM, Paul Davis wrote: > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:26 AM, Brian Candler > wrote: >> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 06:58:47PM +0200, Jan Lehnardt wrote: >>>> Sorry for responding to my original message instead of a reply in >>>> the >>>> thread, but I seem to be having some issues with the mailing list. >>>> Oliver, you are right, I could use a javascript wrapper for >>>> flash. The >>>> problem with that is that it introduces a second dependency to >>>> interact with the REST interface. >>> >>> It adds a second API and complexity to CouchDB to support >>> non-standard clients. I.e: If you don't speak HTTP, you can't >>> talk to CouchDB. >> >> I think you'll find this is extremely common; many clients >> especially don't >> implement DELETE. >> >> The way Rails deals with it is to allow a form POST to have a >> _method field, >> and if it's present, it takes precedence over the HTTP method. >> >> actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/url_helper.rb: >> method_tag = tag('input', :type => 'hidden', :name => >> '_method', :value => method.to_s) >> >> Of course, CouchDB doesn't take a application/x-www-form- >> urlencoded, it >> takes an application/json body. So I think the nearest equivalent >> would be >> to allow a "_method" member in the JSON body and honour it for all >> POST >> requests [with JSON bodies]. Conveniently, CouchDB has already >> reserved all >> top-level keys beginning with underscores for its own purposes. >> >> Regards, >> >> Brian. >> > > Eww. I'm all for supporting clients that have a brain dead HTTP > interface, but piggybacking protocol information into the payload > seems like not a good idea. If we're going to allow method overrides > I'd vote +10 internets for the header version. I'm with Paul here. So that's +20 internets. > But until someone shows me something that can't be accomplished using > the _bulk_docs API I'd be -0 on supporting the header even. Hmm, I don't know about this one. If Mikael is right and X-HTTP- Method-Override is becoming a de facto standard, I think supporting that would be preferable to playing up our non-RESTful _bulk_docs hacks. Adam