[Opensim-dev] REST handlers use partial string matching

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Yeah, it's an interesting problem.  A quick google doesn't reveal any obvious solutions, though one StackOverflow thread 
[1] has an interesting approach of wrapping multiple requests in a 'batch' request.

So I don't object to this, but I don't think that we should kid ourselves that we're writing pure REST interfaces. 
get_asset_exists is effectively an RPC call which POSTs a bunch of UUIDs and gets data back - it is not an HTTP verb 
operating on a resource.

Also, it would be great if you could add this new call to [2].  I'm very slowly trying to document all the various 
interfaces, protocols and calls, so that it's possible for other projects to implement them, to get a better overview of 
interfaces in OpenSimulator, etc.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14636332/convention-for-combining-rest-requests-and-replies
[2] http://opensimulator.org/wiki/AssetService

On 01/04/14 20:49, Oren Hurvitz wrote:
> Re: why use POST instead of HEAD: because this lets me check the existence of
> many assets at once with a single HTTP request. The main use of the
> AssetsExist call is with HGAssetGatherer, which knows the full list of
> assets that it wants to send, so it's able to check all of them at once.
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