[Maas-devel] idempotent()

[Jeroen Vermeulen]

On 18/02/14 16:25, Julian Edwards wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 Feb 2014 08:49:17 Gavin Panella wrote:
>> Even though I was the one who dreamt it up, I have no special love for
>> the idempotent() decorator, and it's always felt imperfect. Can we
>> come up with a compelling improvement that better conveys semantics
>> over mechanics?
>
> If it's all in the name, what about "mutates".  So:
>
> @operation(mutates=False)
> def foo(....)

Can't we just state the HTTP method to be used — GET or POST?  AFAIK 
that's what we mean here anyway.  If appropriate, I'd happily update the 
special create/update/delete methods to have the same decorators, with 
their various arguments.


Jeroen