diff CHANGES.txt @ 5631:a5c890d308c3

Add simple support for xml output if the third party dict2xml.py module https://pypi.org/project/dict2xml/ is installed. Also this checkin adds the ETag support comment to the CHANGES document. The file was accidently omitted from the rest of the etag checkin.
author John Rouillard <rouilj@ieee.org>
date Fri, 01 Mar 2019 23:16:13 -0500
parents b3618882f906
children f576957cbb1f
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--- a/CHANGES.txt	Fri Mar 01 22:57:07 2019 -0500
+++ b/CHANGES.txt	Fri Mar 01 23:16:13 2019 -0500
@@ -54,6 +54,13 @@
      allowed to access. Note that unlike the web interface,  passwords
      and roles for users are still retreivable if the user has access
      rights to the properties.
+   - ETags are sent by GET operations and required for DELETE, PUT and
+     PATCH operations. ETag can be supplied by HTTP header or in the
+     payload by adding the field @etag to the form with the value of
+     the etag.
+   - If dict2xml.py is installed, the rest interface can produce an XML
+     format response if the accept header is set to text/xml.
+     (See: https://pypi.org/project/dict2xml/)
   (John Rouillard)
 - issue2550833: the export_csv web action now returns labels/names
   rather than id's. Replace calls to export_csv with the export_csv_id

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