Multi-put?

[Mike Douglass <douglm@rpi.edu>]

While considering creating some examples of intervals it occurred to me 
that we might need some sort of multi-put/update/delete.

The model we've got for CalDAV and CalWs (REST and SOAP) is that of one 
resource per entity.

That's fine but we can only create/update one per request.

If we're dealing with a related set of entities as we will do in smart 
grid and probably project management (an entire project) then we 
probably want an atomic create/update/delete of all related entities.

One approach might be wrappers for add/update/delete operations which 
turn them into a single transaction. For SOAP it's probably easy - just 
wrap all the SOAP messages in an envelope. Not so simple for CalDAV and 
REST as we need new operations


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Mike Douglass                           douglm@rpi.edu
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