Metadata
- Source
- SJRK-128
- Type
- Task
- Priority
- Major
- Status
- Open
- Resolution
- Fixed
- Assignee
- N/A
- Reporter
- Gregor Moss
- Created
2018-06-01T15:10:43.758-0400 - Updated
2018-06-01T15:21:26.911-0400 - Versions
- N/A
- Fixed Versions
- N/A
- Component
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- Storytelling Tool Server
Description
Kettle's dataSource implementation lacks a specific semantic for the HTTP DELETE operation. "the current DataSource semantic does not provide explicitly for deletion", per the documentation.
For deleting stories, sjrk.storyTelling.server.dataSource.couch.deleteStory uses writeMethod: DELETE to enable this, and arguably, this is an appropriate usage - it's a "write" operation that writes over the record.
There has been discussion in the past about having an explicit DELETE semantic in the Kettle datasource; we should consider whether or not this is necessary for the project, or if the use of "DELETE-write" is acceptable.
An additional consequence of this approach has been that we put the internal CouchDB _rev value onto the readPayload of sjrk.storyTelling.server.dataSource.couch.story - this is arguably an unnecessary leakage of internal state to code used on the client side.