"Creating a list of people"?

[Laurent-Walter Goix]

hello all,

current trunk spec of the social-api-server allows for creating a
person and/or relationship, but does not allow for creating multiple
at once. this would help managing lists of users (eg already existing
in some other system) altogether

i can understand this as a potential batch request but it may also be
"simply" addressed by supporting Person array/collection in the body
of POST (and/or PUT for update/replace) ...Of course whenever an error
occurs on a single person of that collection a default behaviour
should be defined (e.g. ignore single or reject all)

i could also see this useful for activities, to manage multiple at
once.

is there any interest on this feature and how it can be best
addressed?

thanks
walter

[Laurent-Walter Goix]

i am resuming this thread also for the deletion use case in OS 2.5,
where a user would like to delete at once an entire group-Id (meaning
to delete the related relationships with all the users under this
group-Id).

as i would expect it this could be handled by leaving the payload body
empty (currently a person object is mandatory).

re DELETE bodies, some http stacks do not allow or provide the body of
DELETE requests, thus limiting the implementation of the spec. As an
alternative design one could follow the pattern
REST-URI-Fragment = "/people/" Initial-User-Id "/" Group-Id "/"
Related-User-Id
, which already exists for GET and could apply to DELETE as well.
This way DELETE body could be empty and the design could accomodate
both the single user deletion use case and the "entire list" use case
(by simply omitting the Related-User-Id).

any hint?
thanks
walter

On Aug 8, 12:29 pm, Laurent-Walter Goix <laurentwalter.g...@gmail.com>
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