Status code for creating lock-null resource from Tim Ellison on 2001-06-15 (w3c-dist-auth@w3.org from April to June 2001) (original) (raw)

This is cool.

A lock-null resource is a null resource that has been locked. A lock null resource has diferent properties that a null resource. Specifically, it has at least the lock discovery properties, and it is a member of its parent's collection.

Now I'm confused again. A lock-null resource (i.e. a URI that has no resource binding) is-a locked resource? How did you make that leap?

Is it fair to think of LOCK on a (unmapped) URI as creating a resource just as I think of PUT creating a resource? If not, why?

If a lock null resource is not a resource, then what is it?

Since a lock null resource has state, I would claim it is a resource. By the act of a client taking out a lock, they have likely made a mapping of a URL to a conceptual resource, and are int he process of fleshing out the computer representation of the conceptual resource.

Agreed.

Tim

Received on Friday, 15 June 2001 16:03:54 UTC