[OSM-dev] deleting nodes/ways that are members of relations

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Mon May 12 08:29:23 BST 2008


In message <20080512015522.GA21411 at metacarta.com>
        Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at metacarta.com> wrote:

> It looks like the main API and Potlatch have different ideas of what
> should be done when a node is deleted which is a member of a way or
> relation. Potlatch deletes the node from any way or relation that it is
> a member of: the main API just rejects the edit.

It's more complicated than that. The main API expects the client
to do all the work and send individual instructions for each object
while the Potlatch API is sent a complete definition of a way with
all the node locations and is expected to work out which nodes need
to be moved, created and deleted and to do all the work.

> To consolidate these a bit, might it make sense to take a 'force
> deletion' parameter in the API which says 'delete this node from any way
> which it is a member of and remove it from any relations which it is a
> member of'? This would likely be added as a parameter to the 'delete'
> method of the node_controller, and then added as a parameter to the
> 'delete_with_history' api call... 

The vague plan is to have a /api/0.5/way/X/full method which can
be called with PUT with a complete definition of a way and which
will do a Potlatch style update.

Tom

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