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[Saptarshi Purkayastha <sunbiz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you so much for the info Lars.
Sounds like we should be getting POST/PUT on many resources... I'd like to
vote on the org unit creation to priority :-)

Didn't realize what you were solving with the caching... but for the
client-side trying to check if new data is available, ETags are generally
useful.
Like you explain, you are solving a different problem, so it might not be
relevant.

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Regards,
Saptarshi PURKAYASTHA

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2012/3/12 Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>

> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Saptarshi Purkayastha <sunbiz@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Dear devs,
> >
> > Is there documentation about the web-api. Like what resources support
> > GET/POST? I see a list of all the resources and 4 representations, but is
> > there more detailed documentation??
>
> It is only /dataValueSets and /messages which support post. The rest
> supports get only for now.
>
>
> >
> > I also recently saw commits from Lars that implementing caching for
> WebAPI.
> > Is there any reason not to use ETags for the purpose?? That will enable
> to
> > check if new content is exposed by the web service or not and seems like
> the
> > standard way for update checks.
>
> Server-side validation / etag based caching is not useful in this
> scenario since the main purpose (besides saving network usage) is to
> reduce the load on the server - if you are to produce reliable
> hashes/etags then you will have to generate those reports/charts first
> anyway. The idea now is to use the knowledge of when the data in the
> reports are refreshed. And then we might as well use expiration
> caching (cache-control/expiry headers) and let the client cache the
> representations completely and thus avoid the validation round-trip.
> Will write some more about this later.
>
>
>
>
> >
> > Is there a way to create organization units through the Web API?? If not
> the
> > web api, are there any considerations to adding org units on-the-fly,
> > attaching datasets and collecting data. I vaguely remember having to do
> > something with resource tables. Is that still necessary??
>
> No not at the moment but we will include it later.
>
> Resource tables are not required.
>
> >
> > Too many questions probably in one email... but all somehow related to
> one
> > another.
> >
> >
> > ---
> > Regards,
> > Saptarshi PURKAYASTHA
> >
> > My Tech Blog:  http://sunnytalkstech.blogspot.com
> > You Live by CHOICE, Not by CHANCE
> >
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