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The Restful Objects specification defines a set of RESTful resources, and corresponding JSON representations, for accessing and manipulating a domain object model.
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14.2.2 post update Domain object has no 'self' link. ?? #17

Closed richardpawson closed 10 years ago

richardpawson commented 10 years ago

[copied from an email originally from Stef Cascarini]

My scenario is to edit an object and 'PUT' the changes. All OK so I get back the updated object as per 14.2.2. I'd like to just use this updated object but I can't because it has no self link.

Since other fields may have changed (eg title) I either need to copy all the fields across from the updated object or copy the self link across from the old object. Either is ugly. I can't really see any reason for the missing self link - the object has been successfully updated so what's the harm in having a link ? Perhaps it could be reconsidered in v.next of the spec ?

danhaywood commented 10 years ago

Addressed in RO spec 1.1, see for example https://github.com/danhaywood/restfulobjects-spec/commit/ed2e79fdc177b1f560ef904a0a4ac795792fcbd5

danhaywood commented 10 years ago

added into RO spec 1.1, eg https://github.com/danhaywood/restfulobjects-spec/commit/90f7b4e4fbe49564bcf3b3cc356ac9a99fa9f7a3

On 29 July 2013 08:39, Richard Pawson notifications@github.com wrote:

[copied from an email originally from Stef Cascarini]

My scenario is to edit an object and 'PUT' the changes. All OK so I get back the updated object as per 14.2.2. I'd like to just use this updated object but I can't because it has no self link.

Since other fields may have changed (eg title) I either need to copy all the fields across from the updated object or copy the self link across from the old object. Either is ugly. I can't really see any reason for the missing self link - the object has been successfully updated so what's the harm in having a link ? Perhaps it could be reconsidered in v.next of the spec ?

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