[jira] Assigned: (COUCHDB-226) HTTP response codes on doc conflict and database conflict may not agree with HTTP spec

["Jan Lehnardt (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-226?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Jan Lehnardt reassigned COUCHDB-226:
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    Assignee: Jan Lehnardt

> HTTP response codes on doc conflict and database conflict may not agree with HTTP spec 
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>
>                 Key: COUCHDB-226
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-226
>             Project: CouchDB
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: HTTP Interface
>    Affects Versions: 0.9
>            Reporter: Paul Carey
>            Assignee: Jan Lehnardt
>            Priority: Blocker
>
> I'm creating this issue as per Jan's request. It was originally posted to the mailing list a short while ago.
> ==== 
> An attempt to create an already existing database returns a 409.
> $ curl -v -s -X PUT localhost:5984/shiny_new_db 2>&1 | grep '< HTTP'
> < HTTP/1.1 201 Created
> $ curl -v -s -X PUT localhost:5984/shiny_new_db 2>&1 | grep '< HTTP'
> < HTTP/1.1 409 Conflict
> From the 409 section of the HTTP spec [1]
> "This code is only allowed in situations where it is expected that the user might be able to resolve the conflict and resubmit the request."
> But the database already exists - there is no resolution, so I'm not sure a 409 is the best response code here.
> The 412 section of the spec states
> "The precondition given in one or more of the request-header fields evaluated to false"
> Arguably, this is what should be returned when an attempt is made to re-create a pre-existing database - the precondition is that you can PUT to a database URI at most once.
> As for document conflict, CouchDB returns a 412.
> $ curl -v -s -X PUT -d '{"_id":"foo"}' localhost:5984/shiny_new_db/foo
> 2>&1 | grep '< HTTP'
> < HTTP/1.1 201 Created
> $ curl -v -s -X PUT -d '{"_id":"foo"}' localhost:5984/shiny_new_db/foo
> 2>&1 | grep '< HTTP'
> < HTTP/1.1 412 Precondition Failed
> I think a document conflict might have returned a 409 at some point in the past. In fact this is what the Document API wiki page [2] states it returns. Given that the user may resolve the conflict and resubmit the request, a 409 makes sense here.
> To clarify, unless I'm missing something, I think an attempt to create an already existing database should return a 412 and an attempt to update a document that results in a conflict should return a 409.
> [1] http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html
> [2] http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/HTTP_Document_API

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