Re: Meet the Ape

On 8/18/06, Tim Bray <Tim.Bray-xsfywfwIY+M@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Aug 18, 2006, at 12:28 PM, Joe Gregorio wrote:
>
> > On 8/12/06, Tim Bray <Tim.Bray-xsfywfwIY+M@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> At the current time, the Ape always re-fetches the collection feed
> >> because at the moment, that's the only place you can be *sure* of
> >> finding an atom:entry representation of any given entry.
> >
> > I realize that this message is a bit old, but you aren't using
> > the entry from the feed for editing purposes, are you?
>
> Yes, I pull the ID and the edit-URI out and blast a modified version
> of the original I posted, with the right ID, via PUT.  I suppose I'm
> violating a SHOULD in that I'm not preserving server-generated
> foreign markup, but for the purposes of the Ape it seems to work
> fine.  I suppose it would be an improvement if I fetched the entry
> before updating it, although I'd be surprised if the difference was
> material to the Ape. -Tim

That sounds fine for a testing client, as long as you aren't
surprised by a server implementation that truncates atom:contents
to the first 100 characters when it appears in the feed. Obviously
you need to do a GET on the "edit" URI if you were building
a true editing client.

  -joe

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