PUT vs. POST in tika-server

[Jukka Zitting <ju...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I notice the tika-server component (nice work documenting and setting
it up, btw!) uses the PUT verb for receiving documents to be parsed.

The HTTP spec says the following about PUT:

    "The PUT method requests that the enclosed entity be stored under
the supplied Request-URI."

IMO a more appropriate verb to use is POST, that's meant (among other
things) for:

    "Providing a block of data [...] to a data-handling process;"

... which is what tika-server does.

BR,

Jukka Zitting

Re: PUT vs. POST in tika-server

["Mattmann, Chris A (388J)" <ch...@jpl.nasa.gov>]

Hi Guys,

Yeah, I am happy to annotate the code with @POST too like Max suggested.

I opened https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-891 to track this.

Thanks!

Cheers,
Chris

On Apr 5, 2012, at 1:29 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I notice the tika-server component (nice work documenting and setting
> it up, btw!) uses the PUT verb for receiving documents to be parsed.
> 
> The HTTP spec says the following about PUT:
> 
>    "The PUT method requests that the enclosed entity be stored under
> the supplied Request-URI."
> 
> IMO a more appropriate verb to use is POST, that's meant (among other
> things) for:
> 
>    "Providing a block of data [...] to a data-handling process;"
> 
> ... which is what tika-server does.
> 
> BR,
> 
> Jukka Zitting


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Re: PUT vs. POST in tika-server

[Maxim Valyanskiy <ma...@jet.msk.su>]

Hello!

05.04.2012 12:29, Jukka Zitting написал:
> I notice the tika-server component (nice work documenting and setting
> it up, btw!) uses the PUT verb for receiving documents to be parsed.
> IMO a more appropriate verb to use is POST, that's meant (among other
> things) for:
>
>      "Providing a block of data [...] to a data-handling process;"
>
> ... which is what tika-server does.
>

I use PUT only because curl's command line for PUT is simpler than for POST. I 
think we can add POST support too, I hope it can be done simply by addition of 
@POST annotation to all resource methods.

best wishes, Max

Re: PUT vs. POST in tika-server

[Ingo Renner <in...@typo3.org>]

Am 05.04.2012 um 10:29 schrieb Jukka Zitting:

Hi all,

> IMO a more appropriate verb to use is POST, that's meant (among other
> things) for:

+1, I'd also prefer to have POST, also as the default.


best
Ingo

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