[jira] Commented: (COUCHDB-1020) 202 status on "DELETE /db"

["Paul Joseph Davis (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Paul Joseph Davis commented on COUCHDB-1020:
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Though, there's also this bit from the section on DELETE [1]:

> However, the server SHOULD NOT indicate success unless, at the time the response is
> given, it intends to delete the resource or move it to an inaccessible location.

which describes simply moving the file as a successful response.

In terms of the HTTP API, a call to DELETE is successful and enacted because the resource that was mentioned in the request is no longer accessible. IMO, the fact that the internal implementation does not delete the actual file until sometime in the future is of no consequence when discussing the externally visible HTTP API.


[1] http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html#sec9.7

> 202 status on "DELETE /db"
> --------------------------
>
>                 Key: COUCHDB-1020
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1020
>             Project: CouchDB
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: HTTP Interface
>    Affects Versions: 1.2
>            Reporter: Benoit Chesneau
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 1.2
>
>
> Current status is 200 . Following irc discussion there are 2 points of you considering tthat sicne db isn't accessible from HTTP api, 200 is ok. 
> But still data is on the disk and effectively, deletion is asynchronous. HTTP Spec on DELETE :
> [[[
> A successful response SHOULD be 200 (OK) if the response includes an entity describing the status, 202 (Accepted) if the action has not yet been enacted, or 204 (No Content) if the action has been enacted but the response does not include an entity.
> ]]]
> and status 202 :
> [[[
> The request has been accepted for processing, but the processing has not been completed. The request might or might not eventually be acted upon, as it might be disallowed when processing actually takes place. There is no facility for re-sending a status code from an asynchronous operation such as this.
> The 202 response is intentionally non-committal. Its purpose is to allow a server to accept a request for some other process (perhaps a batch-oriented process that is only run once per day) without requiring that the user agent's connection to the server persist until the process is completed. The entity returned with this response SHOULD include an indication of the request's current status and either a pointer to a status monitor or some estimate of when the user can expect the request to be fulfilled.
> ]]]
> Since it's true that deletion introduce an aysnchronous process to delete the db file an it's data, I think that 202 is more appropriate here.
> 202 would mean, that resource isn't available but deletion is running. Related to #COUCHDB-1019 we could pass a pid or taskid to the response eventually.

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