Branko Čibej wrote:
> Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jan 9, 2005, at 2:37 PM, Branko Čibej wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> BTW, can you lock several files with a single DAV request?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I don't think so. The LOCK request is of the form
>>
>> LOCK URI
>> [headers, including authn]
>>
>> [body contains lock comment and lock type]
>>
>>
>> Because LOCK only works on a single URI, the only way to "lock many
>> things" is to lock a whole collection. Which we don't support.
>
>
> But does the URI have to identify a file (or collection), or can it be a
> synthetic beastie that identifies a list of resources? In other words,
> is DAV flexible enough to let you define a synthetic collection that
> exists only for the lifetime of one request?
Nothing prevents you from doing that in a server, but it would still be
different from individually locking the files. Keep in mind that a LOCK
request always creates a single lock, which may happen to affect more
than one resource (through depth:infinity). In particular, inheritence
is by URI containment, that is, if you unlock that synthetic collection,
locks on the indirectly locked resources go away (same for DELETE or MOVE).
Julian
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Received on Mon Jan 10 09:54:51 2005