POST request to LDPCv to create new

Specification

• 4.1.3.1 In supporting PUT to LDPRv in order to create a LDPRm, is this just included for server managed versions?  Or is PUT to an LDPRv intended to be addressable separately from a LDPR so as to trigger this behavior?
  • https://github.com/fcrepo/fcrepo-specification/issues/215
  • Propose that PUT language is removed and that server managed behaviors are left up to implementors so long as they meet other requirements
• 4.3.1 What is the default serialization for GET requests to LDPCv?  The only required encoding is application/link-format.
  • This will depend on if the LDPCv remains the same object as the timemap
• 4.3.5 What is the expected behavior if a POST to an LDPCv is made which specifies a Memento-Datetime that is already in use by an existing LDPRm for that LDPRv?
  
  • Having two memento's with the same datetime would result in datetime negotiation yielding indeterminate results.  
  • Ignore request and return a 412 response?  Delete and replace the existing version?
  • This could be something we decide - perhaps the new one overwrites the existing one?
  • Starting with a 412 response
• 4.5  Does the modeshape fcrepo currently have a server managed option for versioning? 
  • We need to make sure that a server managed scenario knows how to handle an LDPCv correctly - in that it doesn't version that resource if a user issues a PUT against it (as a user would if they want the original resource LDPRv to get versioned).

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• 2.2.1  - noted above in 4.2.3: on a GET/HEAD request to a LDPRm or TimeGate (the LDPRv, in this case) a Link header must be returned with relation type of 'original' which points to URI of the original resource (LDPRv)
• 2.2.2  - on a GET/HEAD request to a LDPR or LDPRm, a Link header must be returned with the relation type of 'timegate', which points to the the timegate for the resource.
  • multiple timegate Links are possible
• 2.2.3 - on a GET/HEAD request to a LDPR or LDPRm or TimeGate(which is the LDPR, in this case), a Link header must be returned with the relation type of 'timemap', which points to the timemap for the resource.
  • support "from" and "until" attributes?  These would cause the returned representation of the time map to only include the interval requested.
  • the link should make use the 'type' attribute to indicate the mime type of the timemap. 

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• Should LDPRv's return Content-Location and Memento-Datetime headers?  The later is required by https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7089#section-4.1.2 but may not make sense in fcrepo's usage.

LDPCv Example Response

# GET request to LDPCv
curl http://localhost/rest/a/fcr:versions -H "Accept: application/link-format" -v

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2017 00:06:50 GMT
< Server: Apache
< Content-Type: application/link-format
< Allow: GET, HEAD, OPTIONS, POST, PATCH, DELETE
< Accept-Post: text/turtle,text/rdf+n3,text/n3,application/rdf+xml,application/n-triples,application/ld+json,multipart/form-data,application/sparql-update
< Accept-Patch: application/sparql-update
< Connection: close

<http://localhost/rest/a>;rel="original timegate",
<http://localhost/rest/a/fcr:versions>
; rel="self";type="application/link-format"
; from="Tue, 20 Jun 2016 18:02:59 GMT"
; until="Wed, 09 Apr 2017 20:30:51 GMT",
<http://localhost/rest/a/fcr:versions/20160620180259356>; rel="memento";datetime="Tue, 20 Jun 2016 18:02:59 GMT",
<http://localhost/rest/a/fcr:versions/version_1>; rel="memento";datetime="Fri, 06 Jan 2017 18:50:11 GMT",
<http://localhost/rest/a/fcr:versions/20170409203051112>; rel="memento";datetime="Wed, 09 Apr 2017 20:30:51 GMT",

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• When restoring a LDPRm, references to would become active again, meaning that they could then be subject to removal. There would likely need to be error reporting to inform clients of this.
  • Need to determine what acceptable validation or outcomes would be for restoring when information could be lost.

Two options for how to handle this Two options for how to handle this would include:

1. When an LDPRm is created from an LDPRv, all references to modeshape nodes would be converted to URIs. Since they would no longer be node references, they would not be cleaned up.
2. Instead of storing a LDPRm as a LDPRS, it could be stored as a RDF serialization of the LDPRS stored to a binary.

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• Resource versions could now be managed individually versus , rather than creating unwanted trees, when the goal is only wanted to version a single resource's metadata.
• Creating a snapshot of an entire tree would need to be triggered with many individual API requests.
• Retrieving or restoring a tree of resources to a particular point in time would require individual API requests with datetime negotiation.
• Creation and management of versions would shift from being a Modeshape-provided feature to the Fedora code base.

Draft Tickets

Add versioning response headers to LDPRv HEAD/GET responses - 

The following headers should be added to responses to HEAD and GET requests to LDPRv's only when the resource is versioned (has the http://fedora.info/definitions/fcrepo#VersionedResource type):

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See Pattern 1.2 in https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7089#page-18 for details.

Support Datetime negiotation for LDPRvs

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• GET requests to LDPRv URIs must support the 'Accept-Datetime' header
• It must follow the syntax outlined in https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7089#section-2.1.1The response must contain headers as outlined in ticket <LDPRm GET response>
• When a 'Accept-Datetime' is provided:
  • Must respond with a 302 status code and an empty body
  • Response must contain 'Location' header containing the URI of the LDPRm or LDPRv that was negotiated
  • Must contain all other standard LDPRm GET response headers
• When a datetime is provided, Fedora will respond with the past LDPRm chronologically nearest (min-past) to the given header as follows:
  • See: Datetime negotiation example

Add versioning headers for LDPRm HEAD/GET responses

Add versioning headers for LDPRm HEAD/GET responses

Responses to LDPRm Responses to LDPRm HEAD and GET requests must include headers as outlined below. A resource is a LDPRm if it is of type http://fedora.info/definitions/fcrepo#VersionedResource

• Add HTTP header Link: rel="timegate" to the LDPRv
• Include 'Link: rel="timemap"' on versioned resource pointing to LDPCv
• add 'original' link header referencing LDPRv
• Add 'Content-Location' headerAdd 'Memento-Datetime' header

Support OPTIONS request on LDPRms

Support OPTIONS request on LDPRms

Response Response to include header 'Allow: GET, HEAD, OPTIONS, DELETE'

Prevent modification requests to LDPRm

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DELETE -  If a resource is deleted from the repository, it appears as if all triples across the repository that have that resource as an object will get removed.  Even in a versioned resource.  According to the API spec, mementos need to be immutable.  This particular behavior of cleaning up will have to change where mementos are concerned.  

PUT requests to LDPRv (work in progress)

PUT requests to LDPRv (work in progress)

See https://See https://fcrepo.github.io/fcrepo-specification/#httpput

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• A new LDPRm is created from the LDPRv
• The LDPRm will have a Memento-Datetime matching the provided Accept-Datetime
• Response includes 'Link: rel=timemap' pointing to LDPCv for versioned resources
• include 'Vary: Accept-Datetime' header in response
• If the LDPCv for the LDPRv does not already exist, then it will be created and contain the new LDPRm

POST request to LDPCv to create

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LDPRm

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Update POST to LDPCv to include support for versioning headers.  In practice, the LDPCv for object with uri <http://localhost/rest/a> would be <http://localhost/rest/a/fcr:versions>

See: https://fcrepo.github.io/fcrepo-specification/#ldpcvpost

• if the request contained a body, then a new LDPRm is created from the submitted body
• if the request body was empty, then a new LDPRm is created from the current version of the LDPRv.
• Creates LDPRm from the current LDPRv, as is the current behavior in fcrepo
• If the LDPCv does not already exist, then it will be created and contain the new LDPRm
• If a Memento-Datetime header is provided as part of this POST request, then the newly created LDPRm must honorattempt to use it as the memento datetime
  • If a LDPRm already exists with the same Memento-Datetime specified, then the LDPRm is not created and a '412 already exists' response is returned.
• Does this need to support body requests? (QUESTION)
• Currently the modeshape fedora will request a "Slug" header be supplied to use as the label of the version. This should be taken out, to be replaced by the Memento-Datetime header, if that's present.  The label should be a timestamp per the Memento DateTime Section of the Memento spec 

Create an LDPCv

Implement the creation of a LDPCv.  

• The LDPCv must not be a child of the LDPRv
• It must be a LDPC ( https://fcrepo.github.io/fcrepo-specification/#LDPC )
• It must contain a relationship to its LDPRv (what would this be?  a property?)

Delete a LDPCv

See: https://fcrepo.github.io/fcrepo-specification/#ldpcvdelete

• Deletes the LDPCv, which has the affect of also deleting all of the LDPRm's contained by it.
• The versioning interaction model is removed from the LDPRv (http://fedora.info/definitions/fcrepo#VersionedResource).

• Response from a successful creation should return a LDPRm headers, particularly the Memento-Datetime of the new LDPRm.
• Response must include a Location header referencing the URI of the newly created LDPRm.

Remove Support for Slug Header on POST to LDPCv

• Currently the modeshape fedora will request a "Slug" header be supplied to use as the label of the version. This should be taken out, to be replaced by the Memento-Datetime header, if that's present.  The label should be a timestamp per the Memento DateTime Section of the Memento spec 

Delete a LDPCv

See: https://fcrepo.github.io/fcrepo-specification/#ldpcvdelete

• Deletes the LDPCv, which has the affect of also deleting all of the LDPRm's contained by it.
• The versioning interaction model is removed from the LDPRv (http://fedora.info/definitions/fcrepo#VersionedResource).

Delete a LDPRv

(this one might not actually be a ticket, since the behavior, though not totally correct, is in line with what we're targeting.)

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Implement application/link-format for TimeMaps

See: https://fcrepo.github.io/fcrepo-specification/#general-3

Requests to an LDPCv/TimeMap for a LDPRv must support a "application/link-format" response type, as shown in the example https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7089#page-37 

• This response type is NOT required to include all statements in the LDPCv's graph, only those that are required by the link-format, outlined https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7089#page-36
  • Including: URI of LDPRv for this timemap, all LDPRms in this LDPCv with their memento date times, timegate link, link to the LDPCv

GET on LDPCv must return interaction model

"An implementation must indicate TimeMap in the same way it indicates the Container interaction model of the resource via HTTP headers."

See: https://fcrepo.github.io/fcrepo-specification/#general-3

Requests to an LDPCv/TimeMap for a LDPRv must support a "application/link-format" response type, as shown in the example https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7089#page-37 

• This response type is NOT required to include all statements in the LDPCv's graph, only those that are required by the link-format, outlined https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7089#page-36
  • Including: URI of LDPRv for this timemap, all LDPRms in this LDPCv with their memento date times, timegate link, link to the LDPCv

HEAD / GET on LDPCv

• Must indicate TimeMap in the same way it indicates the Container interaction model of the resource via HTTP headers.  See: https://fcrepo.github.io/fcrepo-specification/#general-3
• Must return Vary-Post and Vary-Put with value 'Memento-Datetime'.

Jira
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Enable Versioning on a new LDPR

A PUT or POST request to create an object will make a resource versionable if it includes header Link: rel="type" with type of http://fedora.info/definitions/fcrepo#VersionedResource

1. A LDPR will be created as a LDPRv with the versioning type.

2. A LDPCv will be created

3. A LDPRm will be generated, contained by the LDPCv.

The newly created LDPCv:

• must not be a child of the LDPRv
• must be a LDPC ( https://fcrepo.github.io/fcrepo-specification/#LDPC )
• must be track its relationship to the LDPRv
• Note: it will be replacing the current "fcr:versions" path, which was previously used to access modeshape versions.  Versioning will no longer be using built in modeshape tree snapshotting features features.

Enable Versioning on an Existing LDPR

Note: this is still under discussion since an empty PUT to an LDPR may not be valid.

A PUT request to an Existing LDPR will make a resource versionable if it includes header Link: rel="type" with type of http://fedora.info/definitions/fcrepo#VersionedResource

1. The versioning type will be added to the LDPR, making it a LDPRv.

2. A LDPCv will be created for the LDPRv

3. A LDPRm will be generated, contained by the LDPCv.

Restore a LDPRm

Discusssion of the details for this feature are still ongoing at https://github.com/fcrepo/fcrepo-specification/issues/217

Answered questions

• 4.1.1 Should the "timegate" link only be present when an object is versioned or should all LDPR that could be versioned provide this link?
  • Yes, it should always be present
  • This seems to imply that all resources are LDPRv's from the start 
• 4.3.1 Why does each memento need a separate TimeMap to be created, rather than sharing one for all of the LDPRv and LDPRm of one LDPR?
  • This was a misinterpretation.  In the modeshape implementation, currently the timemap is the fcr:versions endpoint.
• 4.3.1 LDPCv must not be contained by the LDPRv
  • does that mean that fcr:versions will no longer be a subpath of the LDPR?
  • This only applies to ldp:contains, the uri is irrelevant
• 4.1.2 The Fcrepo spec doesn't mention it directly, but is there a conflict between the Memento "Content-Location" header and External File's "Content-Location"?  Can they both appear in the same response?
  • External File Content-Location header just appears on LDP-NR HEAD/GET requests, while Memento uses the header for responses from LDPRm and maybe LDPRv, both of which are LDP-RS's.  So the headers should not both appear on the same response
• 4.3.1 How do you determine what serializations are available for TimeMaps?  HEAD is not currently supported and is not in the Memento spec.
  
  • GET response formats are not actually listed in any other requests, only for Post and Patch.
  • However, it would likely be helpful to include info about HEAD and GET requests in the spec
    • https://github.com/fcrepo/fcrepo-specification/issues/223

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