[POST servlet] Scriptable operations (was: RE: [POST servlet] Wildcard for deleting properties)

[Jeff Young <je...@adobe.com>]

This would be a nice feature.

There have been several times when I've written a POST servlet which pulls out the :operation, handles one or more custom ones, and then forwards everything else on to the default POST servlet.

Jeff.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bertrand Delacretaz [mailto:bdelacretaz@apache.org]
> Sent: 17 August 2012 13:05
> To: dev@sling.apache.org
> Subject: Re: [POST servlet] Wildcard for deleting properties
> 
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 4:11 AM, Justin Edelson
> <ju...@justinedelson.com> wrote:
> > ...WDYT about implementing this as an operation? I don't know what to call
> it
> > :) but it seems like we should generally stop (or slow) down additions to
> > the modify operation. One alternative is to add special case composite
> > operations like this....
> 
> I don't think we have scriptable POST operations, but that shouldn't
> be too hard to implement?
> 
> -Bertrand