Re: Review and Comments for Linked Data Platform FPWD

On 30/10/12 15:33, Arnaud Le Hors wrote:
> Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com> wrote on 10/29/2012
> 09:58:57 PM:
>  > ...
>  >
>  > Why not POST to create the new resource, using an empty body, get the
>  > URI back "Location:"), then PUT the contents?  c.f. 303 roundtrip.  Then
>  > the RDF to be stored can be created after the URI is allocated and
>  > standard toolkits can be used.
>  >
>  > This also allows you to POST the entry in the container - or POST to the
>  > container itself, c.f. ?non-member-properties.
>  >
>
> The downside obviously is to require an additional roundtrip.

I agree it's something we need to be aware of.  It is a second HTTP 
operation on a presumably already open/cached connection so the TCP and 
server sync costs are reduced.  It is similar to getting CSS or JS from 
a link in an HTML page.

That said, I think the more likely significant cost is application time 
to produce the RDF once the ___location is known.  This is the same either 
way, with the ordering of the operations being different.

	Andy

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> Arnaud  Le Hors - Software Standards Architect - IBM Software Group
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Received on Tuesday, 30 October 2012 20:15:37 UTC