Subject: Re: [scim] Clarification on body request for DELETE

From: Shelley <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 16:10:33 -0500

Apologies for the delayed reply to this thread regarding the DELETE
response [1], but +1 to returning a 204.

[1] http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/scim/current/msg00980.html

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:10 PM, <[email-masked]> wrote:

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> From: Kelly Grizzle <[email-masked]>
> To: Alexandre Santos <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <
> [email-masked]>
> Cc:
> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:10:28 +0000
> Subject: Re: [scim] Clarification on body request for DELETE
>
> The SCIM API spec is not entirely clear here.  According to RFC 2616, the
> DELETE operation should work like this:****
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>    A successful response SHOULD be 200 (OK) if the response includes an***
> *
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>    entity describing the status, 202 (Accepted) if the action has not****
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>    yet been enacted, or 204 (No Content) if the action has been enacted***
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>    but the response does not include an entity.****
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> I can’t think of anything interesting for SCIM to return in a response
> body, so my vote would either be a 200 with an empty response (or just a
> message) or a 204 with no response body.  Perhaps we should open an issue
> to clarify this.  Thoughts?****
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> --Kelly
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