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Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 07:53:20 +0200
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Subject: Re: delete Docs
From: wolfgang haefelinger <whaefelinger@gmail.com>
To: user@couchdb.apache.org
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I would like to disagree ..

My remark was about why one needs to know the representation (here
Javascript) of the resource in order to delete it. After all, the
following appears to work fine (still using version 0.10 ):

$ curl -X DELETE http://localhost:5984/mydb/myid?rev=3Dwhatever


On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Noah Slater <nslater@me.com> wrote:
>
> On 6 Apr 2010, at 15:15, Jan Lehnardt wrote:
>
>>
>> On 6 Apr 2010, at 09:53, wolfgang haefelinger wrote:
>>>> and indeed couchdb-python uses this :
>>>>
>>>> =A0 =A0 =A0 status, headers, data =3D self.resource.head(id)
>>>> =A0 =A0 =A0 self.resource.delete_json(id, rev=3Dheaders['etag'].strip(=
'"'))
>>>
>>> Strange. Wouldn't we expect that deleting a resource is independent
>>> from its representation, would we?
>>
>> No we wouldn't :) =97 When writing, you need to prove that you don't
>> accidentally overwrite anybody else's data. This is not a REST but
>> a CouchDB constraint, but it doesn't violate REST really. Also,
>> deleting data is bad, mmkay :)
>
> The distinction here is that you're not deleting the resource at all, you=
 are deleting the representation. So CouchDB asks you to demonstrate that y=
ou know which version of the representation you're wanting to delete. It's =
a core part of CouchDB's conflict protection mechanism.


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