Stream: implementers
Topic: Handling of Updates
Caitlin Voegele (Feb 04 2022 at 22:32):
Quick question on handling of updates. If you go to update a resource and all of the data is the same, could you simply update the lastUpdated date and version and not store the whole new resource? Basically looking at how we could reduce data store size by not rewriting millions of rows and instead simply silently accept.
Michele Mottini (Feb 05 2022 at 00:50):
If nothing changes don't do anything at all
Josh Mandel (Feb 05 2022 at 04:00):
Indeed, given how we define lastUpsated:
If populated, this value changes each time the content of the resource changes.
It seems perfectly fine to leave this and the version ID untouched if a client requests an update but does not provide any actual changed content (i.e., 200 response and no change to the resource at all).
Last updated: Apr 12 2022 at 19:14 UTC
