If the DAV:auto-version value is DAV:checkout, when a modification
request is applied to a checked-in version-controlled resource, the
request is automatically preceded by a checkout operation.
If the DAV:auto-version value is DAV:locked-checkout, when a
modification request is applied to a write-locked checked-in
version-controlled resource, the request is automatically preceded by
a checkout operation.
If an update to a write-locked checked-in resource is automatically
preceded by a checkout of that resource, the checkout is associated
with the write lock. When this write lock is removed (e.g. from an
UNLOCK or a lock timeout), if the resource has not yet been checked
in, the removal of the write lock is automatically preceded by a
checkin operation.
A server MAY refuse to allow the value of the DAV:auto-version
property to be modified, or MAY only support values from a subset of
the valid values.
<!ELEMENT auto-version (checkout-checkin | checkout-unlocked-checkin
| checkout | locked-checkout)? >
<!ELEMENT checkout-checkin EMPTY>
<!ELEMENT checkout-unlocked-checkin EMPTY>
<!ELEMENT checkout EMPTY>
<!ELEMENT locked-checkout EMPTY>
3.3 Checked-Out Resource Properties
The version-control feature introduces the following REQUIRED
properties for a checked-out resource.
3.3.1 DAV:checked-out (protected)
This property identifies the version that was identified by the
DAV:checked-in property at the time the resource was checked out.
This property is removed when the resource is checked in.
<!ELEMENT checked-out (href)>
3.3.2 DAV:predecessor-set
This property determines the DAV:predecessor-set property of the
version that results from checking in this resource.
A server MAY reject attempts to modify the DAV:predecessor-set of a
version-controlled resource.
<!ELEMENT predecessor-set (href+)>
3.4 Version Properties
The version-control feature introduces the following REQUIRED
properties for a version.
3.4.1 DAV:predecessor-set (protected)
This property identifies each predecessor of this version. Except
for the root version, which has no predecessors, each version has at
least one predecessor.
<!ELEMENT predecessor-set (href*)>
3.4.2 DAV:successor-set (computed)
This property identifies each version whose DAV:predecessor-set
identifies this version.
<!ELEMENT successor-set (href*)>
3.4.3 DAV:checkout-set (computed)
This property identifies each checked-out resource whose
DAV:checked-out property identifies this version.
<!ELEMENT checkout-set (href*)>
3.4.4 DAV:version-name (protected)
This property contains a server-defined string that is different for
each version in a given version history. This string is intended for
display for a user, unlike the URL of a version, which is normally
only used by a client and not displayed for a user.
<!ELEMENT version-name (#PCDATA)>
PCDATA value: string
3.5 VERSION-CONTROL Method
A VERSION-CONTROL request can be used to create a version-controlled
resource at the request-URL. It can be applied to a versionable
resource or to a version-controlled resource.
If the request-URL identifies a versionable resource, a new version
history resource is created, a new version is created whose content
and dead properties are copied from the versionable resource, and the
resource is given a DAV:checked-in property that is initialized to
identify this new version.
If the request-URL identifies a version-controlled resource, the
resource just remains under version-control. This allows a client to
be unaware of whether or not a server automatically puts a resource
under version control when it is created.
If a VERSION-CONTROL request fails, the server state preceding the
request MUST be restored.
Marshalling:
If a request body is included, it MUST be a DAV:version-control
XML element.
<!ELEMENT version-control ANY>
If a response body for a successful request is included, it MUST
be a DAV:version-control-response XML element. Note that this
document does not define any elements for the VERSION-CONTROL
response body, but the DAV:version-control-response element is
defined to ensure interoperability between future extensions that
do define elements for the VERSION-CONTROL response body.
<!ELEMENT version-control-response ANY>
Postconditions:
(DAV:put-under-version-control): If the request-URL identified a
versionable resource at the time of the request, the request MUST
have created a new version history and MUST have created a new
version resource in that version history. The resource MUST have
a DAV:checked-in property that identifies the new version. The
content, dead properties, and DAV:resourcetype of the new version
MUST be the same as those of the resource. Note that an
implementation can choose to locate the version history and
version resources anywhere that it wishes. In particular, it
could locate them on the same host and server as the version-
controlled resource, on a different virtual host maintained by the
same server, on the same host maintained by a different server, or
on a different host maintained by a different server.
(DAV:must-not-change-existing-checked-in-out): If the request-URL
identified a resource already under version control at the time of
the request, the request MUST NOT change the DAV:checked-in or
DAV:checked-out property of that version-controlled resource.
3.5.1 Example - VERSION-CONTROL
>>REQUEST
VERSION-CONTROL /foo.html HTTP/1.1
Host: www.webdav.org
Content-Length: 0
>>RESPONSE
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
In this example, /foo.html is put under version control. A new
version history is created for it, and a new version is created that
has a copy of the content and dead properties of /foo.html. The
DAV:checked-in property of /foo.html identifies this new version.
3.6 REPORT Method
A REPORT request is an extensible mechanism for obtaining information
about a resource. Unlike a resource property, which has a single
value, the value of a report can depend on additional information
specified in the REPORT request body and in the REPORT request
headers.
Marshalling:
The body of a REPORT request specifies which report is being
requested, as well as any additional information that will be used
to customize the report.
The request MAY include a Depth header. If no Depth header is
included, Depth:0 is assumed.
The response body for a successful request MUST contain the
requested report.
If a Depth request header is included, the response MUST be a 207
Multi-Status. The request MUST be applied separately to the
collection itself and to all members of the collection that
satisfy the Depth value. The DAV:prop element of a DAV:response
for a given resource MUST contain the requested report for that
resource.
Preconditions:
(DAV:supported-report): The specified report MUST be supported by
the resource identified by the request-URL.
Postconditions:
(DAV:no-modification): The REPORT method MUST NOT have changed the
content or dead properties of any resource.
3.7 DAV:version-tree Report
The DAV:version-tree report describes the requested properties of all
the versions in the version history of a version. If the report is
requested for a version-controlled resource, it is redirected to its
DAV:checked-in or DAV:checked-out version.
The DAV:version-tree report MUST be supported by all version
resources and all version-controlled resources.
Marshalling:
The request body MUST be a DAV:version-tree XML element.
<!ELEMENT version-tree ANY>
ANY value: a sequence of zero or more elements, with at most one
DAV:prop element.
prop: see RFC2518, Section 12.11
The response body for a successful request MUST be a
DAV:multistatus XML element.
multistatus: see RFC2518, Section 12.9
The response body for a successful DAV:version-tree REPORT request
MUST contain a DAV:response element for each version in the
version history of the version identified by the request-URL.
3.7.1 Example - DAV:version-tree Report
The version history drawn below would produce the following version
tree report.
foo.html History
+---+
| | V1
+---+
/ \
/ \
+---+ +---+
| | V2 | | V2.1.1
+---+ +---+
>>REQUEST
REPORT /foo.html HTTP/1.1
Host: www.webdav.org
Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
Content-Length: xxxx
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<D:version-tree xmlns:D="DAV:">
<D:prop>
<D:version-name/>
<D:creator-displayname/>
<D:successor-set/>
</D:prop>
</D:version-tree>
>>RESPONSE
HTTP/1.1 207 Multi-Status
Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
Content-Length: xxxx
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<D:multistatus xmlns:D="DAV:">
<D:response>
<D:href>http://repo.webdav.org/his/23/ver/V1</D:href>
<D:propstat>
<D:prop>
<D:version-name>V1</D:version-name>
<D:creator-displayname>Fred</D:creator-displayname>
<D:successor-set>
<D:href>http://repo.webdav.org/his/23/ver/V2</D:href>
<D:href>http://repo.webdav.org/his/23/ver/V2.1.1</D:href>
</D:successor-set>
</D:prop>
<D:status>HTTP/1.1 200 OK</D:status>
</D:propstat>
</D:response>
<D:response>
<D:href>http://repo.webdav.org/his/23/ver/V2</D:href>
<D:propstat>
<D:prop>
<D:version-name>V2</D:version-name>
<D:creator-displayname>Fred</D:creator-displayname>
<D:successor-set/>
</D:prop>
<D:status>HTTP/1.1 200 OK</D:status>
</D:propstat>
</D:response>
<D:response>
<D:href>http://repo.webdav.org/his/23/ver/V2.1.1</D:href>
<D:propstat>
<D:prop>
<D:version-name>V2.1.1</D:version-name>
<D:creator-displayname>Sally</D:creator-displayname>
<D:successor-set/>
</D:prop>
<D:status>HTTP/1.1 200 OK</D:status>
</D:propstat>
</D:response>
</D:multistatus>
3.8 DAV:expand-property Report
Many property values are defined as a DAV:href, or a set of DAV:href
elements. The DAV:expand-property report provides a mechanism for
retrieving in one request the properties from the resources
identified by those DAV:href elements. This report not only
decreases the number of requests required, but also allows the server
to minimize the number of separate read transactions required on the
underlying versioning store.
The DAV:expand-property report SHOULD be supported by all resources
that support the REPORT method.
Marshalling:
The request body MUST be a DAV:expand-property XML element.
<!ELEMENT expand-property (property*)>
<!ELEMENT property (property*)>
<!ATTLIST property name NMTOKEN #REQUIRED>
name value: a property element type
<!ATTLIST property namespace NMTOKEN "DAV:">
namespace value: an XML namespace
The response body for a successful request MUST be a
DAV:multistatus XML element.
multistatus: see RFC2518, Section 12.9
The properties reported in the DAV:prop elements of the
DAV:multistatus element MUST be those identified by the
DAV:property elements in the DAV:expand-property element. If
there are DAV:property elements nested within a DAV:property
element, then every DAV:href in the value of the corresponding
property is replaced by a DAV:response element whose DAV:prop
elements report the values of the properties identified by the
nested DAV:property elements. The nested DAV:property elements
can in turn contain DAV:property elements, so that multiple levels
of DAV:href expansion can be requested.
Note that a validating parser MUST be aware that the DAV:expand-
property report effectively modifies the DTD of every property by
replacing every occurrence of "href" in the DTD with "href |
response".
3.8.1 Example - DAV:expand-property
This example describes how to query a version-controlled resource to
determine the DAV:creator-display-name and DAV:activity-set of every
version in the version history of that version-controlled resource.
This example assumes that the server supports the version-history
feature (see Section 5).
>>REQUEST
REPORT /foo.html HTTP/1.1
Host: www.webdav.org
Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
Content-Length: xxxx
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<D:expand-property xmlns:D="DAV:">
<D:property name="version-history">
<D:property name="version-set">
<D:property name="creator-displayname"/>
<D:property name="activity-set"/>
</D:property>
</D:property>
</D:expand-property>
>>RESPONSE
HTTP/1.1 207 Multi-Status
Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
Content-Length: xxxx
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<D:multistatus xmlns:D="DAV:">
<D:response>
<D:href>http://www.webdav.org/foo.html</D:href>
<D:propstat>
<D:prop>
<D:version-history>
<D:response>
<D:href>http://repo.webdav.org/his/23</D:href>
<D:propstat>
<D:prop>
<D:version-set>
<D:response>
<D:href>http://repo.webdav.org/his/23/ver/1</D:href>
<D:propstat>
<D:prop>
<D:creator-displayname>Fred</D:creator-displayname>
<D:activity-set> <D:href>
http://www.webdav.org/ws/dev/sally
</D:href> </D:activity-set> </D:prop>
<D:status>HTTP/1.1 200 OK</D:status>
</D:propstat> </D:response>
<D:response>
<D:href>http://repo.webdav.org/his/23/ver/2</D:href>
<D:propstat>
<D:prop>
<D:creator-displayname>Sally</D:creator-displayname>
<D:activity-set>
<D:href>http://repo.webdav.org/act/add-refresh-cmd</D:href>
</D:activity-set> </D:prop>
<D:status>HTTP/1.1 200 OK</D:status>
</D:propstat> </D:response>
</D:version-set> </D:prop>
<D:status>HTTP/1.1 200 OK</D:status>
</D:propstat> </D:response>
</D:version-history> </D:prop>
<D:status>HTTP/1.1 200 OK</D:status>
</D:propstat> </D:response>
</D:multistatus>
In this example, the DAV:creator-displayname and DAV:activity-set
properties of the versions in the DAV:version-set of the
DAV:version-history of http://www.webdav.org/foo.html are reported.
3.9 Additional OPTIONS Semantics
If the server supports the version-control feature, it MUST include
"version-control" as a field in the DAV response header from an
OPTIONS request on any resource that supports any versioning
properties, reports, or methods.
3.10 Additional PUT Semantics
Additional Preconditions:
(DAV:cannot-modify-version-controlled-content): If the request-URL
identifies a resource with a DAV:checked-in property, the request
MUST fail unless DAV:auto-version semantics will automatically
check out the resource.
(DAV:cannot-modify-version): If the request-URL identifies a
version, the request MUST fail.
If the request creates a new resource that is automatically placed
under version control, all preconditions for VERSION-CONTROL apply
to the request.
Additional Postconditions:
(DAV:auto-checkout): If the resource was a checked-in version-
controlled resource whose DAV:auto-version property indicates it
should be automatically checked out but not automatically checked
in for a modification request, then the server MUST have
automatically checked out the resource prior to executing the
request. In particular, the value of the DAV:checked-out property
of the resource MUST be that of the DAV:checked-in property prior
to the request, the DAV:checked-in property MUST have been
removed, and the DAV:predecessor-set property MUST be initialized
to be the same as the DAV:checked-out property. If any part of
the checkout/update sequence failed, the status from the failed
part of the request MUST be returned, and the server state
preceding the request sequence MUST be restored.
(DAV:auto-checkout-checkin): If the resource was a checked-in
version-controlled resource whose DAV:auto-version property
indicates it should be automatically checked out and automatically
checked in for a modification request, then the server MUST have
automatically checked out the resource prior to executing the
request and automatically checked it in after the request. In
particular, the DAV:checked-in property of the resource MUST
identify a new version whose content and dead properties are the
same as those of the resource. The DAV:predecessor-set of the new
version MUST identify the version identified by the DAV:checked-in
property prior to the request. If any part of the
checkout/update/checkin sequence failed, the status from the
failed part of the request MUST be returned, and the server state
preceding the request sequence MUST be restored.
If the request creates a new resource, the new resource MAY have
automatically been placed under version control, and all
postconditions for VERSION-CONTROL apply to the request.
3.11 Additional PROPFIND Semantics
A DAV:allprop PROPFIND request SHOULD NOT return any of the
properties defined by this document. This allows a versioning server
to perform efficiently when a naive client, which does not understand
the cost of asking a server to compute all possible live properties,
issues a DAV:allprop PROPFIND request.
Additional Preconditions:
(DAV:supported-live-property): If the request attempts to access a
property defined by this document, the semantics of that property
MUST be supported by the server.
3.12 Additional PROPPATCH Semantics
Additional Preconditions:
(DAV:cannot-modify-version-controlled-property): If the request
attempts to modify a dead property, same semantics as PUT (see
Section 3.10).
(DAV:cannot-modify-version): If the request attempts to modify a
dead property, same semantics as PUT (see Section 3.10).
(DAV:cannot-modify-protected-property): An attempt to modify a
property that is defined by this document, as being protected for
that kind of resource, MUST fail.
(DAV:supported-live-property): An attempt to modify a property
defined by this document, but whose semantics are not enforced by
the server, MUST fail. This helps ensure that a client will be
notified when it is trying to use a property whose semantics are
not supported by the server.
Additional Postconditions:
(DAV:auto-checkout): If the request modified a dead property, same
semantics as PUT (see Section 3.10).
(DAV:auto-checkout-checkin): If the request modified a dead
property, same semantics as PUT (see Section 3.10).
3.13 Additional DELETE Semantics
Additional Preconditions:
(DAV:no-version-delete): A server MAY fail an attempt to DELETE a
version.
Additional Postconditions:
(DAV:update-predecessor-set): If a version was deleted, the server
MUST have replaced any reference to that version in a
DAV:predecessor-set by a copy of the DAV:predecessor-set of the
deleted version.
3.14 Additional COPY Semantics
Additional Preconditions:
If the request creates a new resource that is automatically placed
under version control, all preconditions for VERSION-CONTROL apply
to the request.
Additional Postconditions:
(DAV:must-not-copy-versioning-property): A property defined by
this document MUST NOT have been copied to the new resource
created by this request, but instead that property of the new
resource MUST have the default initial value it would have had if
the new resource had been created by a non-versioning method such
as PUT or a MKCOL.
(DAV:auto-checkout): If the destination is a version-controlled
resource, same semantics as PUT (see Section 3.10).
(DAV:auto-checkout-checkin): If the destination is a version-
controlled resource, same semantics as PUT (see Section 3.10).
(DAV:copy-creates-new-resource): If the source of a COPY is a
version-controlled resource or version, and if there is no
resource at the destination of the COPY, then the COPY creates a
new non-version-controlled resource at the destination of the
COPY. The new resource MAY automatically be put under version
control, but the resulting version-controlled resource MUST be
associated with a new version history created for that new
version-controlled resource, and all postconditions for
VERSION-CONTROL apply to the request.
3.15 Additional MOVE Semantics
Additional Preconditions:
(DAV:cannot-rename-version): If the request-URL identifies a
version, the request MUST fail.
Additional Postconditions:
(DAV:preserve-versioning-properties): When a resource is moved
from a source URL to a destination URL, a property defined by this
document MUST have the same value at the destination URL as it had
at the source URL.
3.16 Additional UNLOCK Semantics
Note that these semantics apply both to an explicit UNLOCK request,
as well as to the removal of a lock because of a lock timeout. If a
precondition or postcondition cannot be satisfied, the lock timeout
MUST NOT occur.
Additional Preconditions:
(DAV:version-history-is-tree): If the request-URL identifies a
checked-out version-controlled resource that will be automatically
checked in when the lock is removed, then the versions identified
by the DAV:predecessor-set of the checked-out resource MUST be
descendants of the root version of the version history for the
DAV:checked-out version.
Additional Postconditions:
(DAV:auto-checkin): If the request-URL identified a checked-out
version-controlled resource that had been automatically checked
out because of its DAV:auto-version property, the request MUST
have created a new version in the version history of the
DAV:checked-out version. The request MUST have allocated a URL
for the version that MUST NOT have previously identified any other
resource, and MUST NOT ever identify a resource other than this
version. The content, dead properties, DAV:resourcetype, and
DAV:predecessor-set of the new version MUST be copied from the
checked-out resource. The DAV:version-name of the new version
MUST be set to a server-defined value distinct from all other
DAV:version-name values of other versions in the same version
history. The request MUST have removed the DAV:checked-out
property of the version-controlled resource, and MUST have added a
DAV:checked-in property that identifies the new version.
4 CHECKOUT-IN-PLACE FEATURE
With the version-control feature, WebDAV locking can be used to avoid
the proliferation of versions that would result if every modification
to a version-controlled resource produced a new version. The
checkout-in-place feature provides an alternative mechanism that
allows a client to explicitly check out and check in a resource to
create a new version.
4.1 Additional Version Properties
The checkout-in-place feature introduces the following REQUIRED
properties for a version.
4.1.1 DAV:checkout-fork
This property controls the behavior of CHECKOUT when a version
already is checked out or has a successor. If the DAV:checkout-fork
of a version is DAV:forbidden, a CHECKOUT request MUST fail if it
would result in that version appearing in the DAV:predecessor-set or
DAV:checked-out property of more than one version or checked-out
resource. If DAV:checkout-fork is DAV:discouraged, such a CHECKOUT
request MUST fail unless DAV:fork-ok is specified in the CHECKOUT
request body.
A server MAY reject attempts to modify the DAV:checkout-fork of a
version.
<!ELEMENT checkout-fork ANY>
ANY value: A sequence of elements with at most one DAV:discouraged
or DAV:forbidden element.
<!ELEMENT discouraged EMPTY>
<!ELEMENT forbidden EMPTY>
4.1.2 DAV:checkin-fork
This property controls the behavior of CHECKIN when a version already
has a successor. If the DAV:checkin-fork of a version is
DAV:forbidden, a CHECKIN request MUST fail if it would result in that
version appearing in the DAV:predecessor-set of more than one
version. If DAV:checkin-fork is DAV:discouraged, such a CHECKIN
request MUST fail unless DAV:fork-ok is specified in the CHECKIN
request body.
A server MAY reject attempts to modify the DAV:checkout-fork of a
version.
<!ELEMENT checkin-fork ANY>
ANY value: A sequence of elements with at most one DAV:discouraged
or DAV:forbidden element.
<!ELEMENT discouraged EMPTY>
<!ELEMENT forbidden EMPTY>
4.2 Checked-Out Resource Properties
The checkout-in-place feature introduces the following REQUIRED
properties for a checked-out resource.
4.2.1 DAV:checkout-fork
This property determines the DAV:checkout-fork property of the
version that results from checking in this resource.
4.2.2 DAV:checkin-fork
This property determines the DAV:checkin-fork property of the version
that results from checking in this resource.
4.3 CHECKOUT Method (applied to a version-controlled resource)
A CHECKOUT request can be applied to a checked-in version-controlled
resource to allow modifications to the content and dead properties of
that version-controlled resource.
If a CHECKOUT request fails, the server state preceding the request
MUST be restored.
Marshalling:
If a request body is included, it MUST be a DAV:checkout XML
element.
<!ELEMENT checkout ANY>
ANY value: A sequence of elements with at most one DAV:fork-ok
element.
<!ELEMENT fork-ok EMPTY>
If a response body for a successful request is included, it MUST
be a DAV:checkout-response XML element.
<!ELEMENT checkout-response ANY>
The response MUST include a Cache-Control:no-cache header.
Preconditions:
(DAV:must-be-checked-in): If a version-controlled resource is
being checked out, it MUST have a DAV:checked-in property.
(DAV:checkout-of-version-with-descendant-is-forbidden): If the
DAV:checkout-fork property of the version being checked out is
DAV:forbidden, the request MUST fail if a version identifies that
version in its DAV:predecessor-set.
(DAV:checkout-of-version-with-descendant-is-discouraged): If the
DAV:checkout-fork property of the version being checked out is
DAV:discouraged, the request MUST fail if a version identifies
that version in its DAV:predecessor-set unless DAV:fork-ok is
specified in the request body.
(DAV:checkout-of-checked-out-version-is-forbidden): If the
DAV:checkout-fork property of the version being checked out is
DAV:forbidden, the request MUST fail if a checked-out resource
identifies that version in its DAV:checked-out property.
(DAV:checkout-of-checked-out-version-is-discouraged): If the
DAV:checkout-fork property of the version being checked out is
DAV:discouraged, the request MUST fail if a checked-out resource
identifies that version in its DAV:checked-out property unless
DAV:fork-ok is specified in the request body.
Postconditions:
(DAV:is-checked-out): The checked-out resource MUST have a
DAV:checked-out property that identifies the DAV:checked-in
version preceding the checkout. The version-controlled resource
MUST NOT have a DAV:checked-in property.
(DAV:initialize-predecessor-set): The DAV:predecessor-set property
of the checked-out resource MUST be initialized to be the
DAV:checked-out version.
4.3.1 Example - CHECKOUT of a version-controlled resource
>>REQUEST
CHECKOUT /foo.html HTTP/1.1
Host: www.webdav.org
Content-Length: 0
>>RESPONSE
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: no-cache
In this example, the version-controlled resource /foo.html is checked
out.
4.4 CHECKIN Method (applied to a version-controlled resource)
A CHECKIN request can be applied to a checked-out version-controlled
resource to produce a new version whose content and dead properties
are copied from the checked-out resource.
If a CHECKIN request fails, the server state preceding the request
MUST be restored.
Marshalling:
If a request body is included, it MUST be a DAV:checkin XML
element.
<!ELEMENT checkin ANY>
ANY value: A sequence of elements with at most one
DAV:keep-checked-out element and at most one DAV:fork-ok element.
<!ELEMENT keep-checked-out EMPTY>
<!ELEMENT fork-ok EMPTY>
If a response body for a successful request is included, it MUST
be a DAV:checkin-response XML element.
<!ELEMENT checkin-response ANY>
The response MUST include a Cache-Control:no-cache header.
Preconditions:
(DAV:must-be-checked-out): The request-URL MUST identify a
resource with a DAV:checked-out property.
(DAV:version-history-is-tree) The versions identified by the
DAV:predecessor-set of the checked-out resource MUST be
descendants of the root version of the version history for the
DAV:checked-out version.
(DAV:checkin-fork-forbidden): A CHECKIN request MUST fail if it
would cause a version whose DAV:checkin-fork is DAV:forbidden to
appear in the DAV:predecessor-set of more than one version.
(DAV:checkin-fork-discouraged): A CHECKIN request MUST fail if it
would cause a version whose DAV:checkin-fork is DAV:discouraged to
appear in the DAV:predecessor-set of more than one version, unless
DAV:fork-ok is specified in the request body.
Postconditions:
(DAV:create-version): The request MUST have created a new version
in the version history of the DAV:checked-out version. The
request MUST have allocated a distinct new URL for the new
version, and that URL MUST NOT ever identify any resource other
than that version. The URL for the new version MUST be returned in
a Location response header.
(DAV:initialize-version-content-and-properties): The content, dead
properties, DAV:resourcetype, and DAV:predecessor-set of the new
version MUST be copied from the checked-out resource. The
DAV:version-name of the new version MUST be set to a server-
defined value distinct from all other DAV:version-name values of
other versions in the same version history.
(DAV:checked-in): If the request-URL identifies a version-
controlled resource and DAV:keep-checked-out is not specified in
the request body, the DAV:checked-out property of the version-
controlled resource MUST have been removed and a DAV:checked-in
property that identifies the new version MUST have been added.
(DAV:keep-checked-out): If DAV:keep-checked-out is specified in
the request body, the DAV:checked-out property of the checked-out
resource MUST have been updated to identify the new version.
4.4.1 Example - CHECKIN
>>REQUEST
CHECKIN /foo.html HTTP/1.1
Host: www.webdav.org
Content-Length: 0
>>RESPONSE
HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Location: http://repo.webdav.org/his/23/ver/32
Cache-Control: no-cache
In this example, version-controlled resource /foo.html is checked in,
and a new version is created at http://repo.webdav.org/his/23/ver/32.
4.5 UNCHECKOUT Method
An UNCHECKOUT request can be applied to a checked-out version-
controlled resource to cancel the CHECKOUT and restore the pre-
CHECKOUT state of the version-controlled resource.
If an UNCHECKOUT request fails, the server MUST undo any partial
effects of the UNCHECKOUT request.
Marshalling:
If a request body is included, it MUST be a DAV:uncheckout XML
element.
<!ELEMENT uncheckout ANY>
If a response body for a successful request is included, it MUST
be a DAV:uncheckout-response XML element.
<!ELEMENT uncheckout-response ANY>
The response MUST include a Cache-Control:no-cache header.
Preconditions:
(DAV:must-be-checked-out-version-controlled-resource): The
request-URL MUST identify a version-controlled resource with a
DAV:checked-out property.
Postconditions:
(DAV:cancel-checked-out): The value of the DAV:checked-in property
is that of the DAV:checked-out property prior to the request, and
the DAV:checked-out property has been removed.
(DAV:restore-content-and-dead-properties): The content and dead
properties of the version-controlled resource are copies of its
DAV:checked-in version.
4.5.1 Example - UNCHECKOUT
>>REQUEST
UNCHECKOUT /foo.html HTTP/1.1
Host: www.webdav.org
Content-Length: 0
>>RESPONSE
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: no-cache
In this example, the content and dead properties of the version-
controlled resource identified by http://www.webdav.org/foo.html are
restored to their values preceding the most recent CHECKOUT of that
version-controlled resource.
4.6 Additional OPTIONS Semantics
If a server supports the checkout-in-place feature, it MUST include
"checkout-in-place" as a field in the DAV response header from an
OPTIONS request on any resource that supports any versioning
properties, reports, or methods.
5 Version-History Feature
It is often useful to have access to a version history even after all
version-controlled resources for that version history have been
deleted. A server can provide this functionality by supporting
version history resources. A version history resource is a resource
that exists in a server defined namespace and therefore is unaffected
by any deletion or movement of version-controlled resources. A
version history resource is an appropriate place to add a property
that logically applies to all states of a resource. The DAV:expand-
property report (see Section 3.8) can be applied to the DAV:version-
set of a version history resource to provide a variety of useful
reports on all versions in that version history.
5.1 Version History Properties
The DAV:resourcetype of a version history MUST be DAV:version-
history.
The version-history feature introduces the following REQUIRED
properties for a version history.
5.1.1 DAV:version-set (protected)
This property identifies each version of this version history.
<!ELEMENT version-set (href+)>
5.1.2 DAV:root-version (computed)
This property identifies the root version of this version history.
<!ELEMENT root-version (href)>
5.2 Additional Version-Controlled Resource Properties
The version-history feature introduces the following REQUIRED
property for a version-controlled resource.
5.2.1 DAV:version-history (computed)
This property identifies the version history resource for the
DAV:checked-in or DAV:checked-out version of this version-controlled
resource.
<!ELEMENT version-history (href)>
5.3 Additional Version Properties
The version-history feature introduces the following REQUIRED
property for a version.
5.3.1 DAV:version-history (computed)
This property identifies the version history that contains this
version.
<!ELEMENT version-history (href)>
5.4 DAV:locate-by-history Report
Many properties identify a version from some version history. It is
often useful to be able to efficiently locate a version-controlled
resource for that version history. The DAV:locate-by-history report
can be applied to a collection to locate the collection member that
is a version-controlled resource for a specified version history
resource.
Marshalling:
The request body MUST be a DAV:locate-by-history XML element.
<!ELEMENT locate-by-history (version-history-set, prop)>
<!ELEMENT version-history-set (href+)>
prop: see RFC2518, Section 12.11
The response body for a successful request MUST be a
DAV:multistatus XML element containing every version-controlled
resource that is a member of the collection identified by the
request-URL, and whose DAV:version-history property identifies one
of the version history resources identified by the request body.
The DAV:prop element in the request body identifies which
properties should be reported in the DAV:prop elements in the
response body.
Preconditions:
(DAV:must-be-version-history): Each member of the DAV:version-
history-set element in the request body MUST identify a version
history resource.
5.4.1 Example - DAV:locate-by-history Report
>>REQUEST
REPORT /ws/public HTTP/1.1
Host: www.webdav.org
Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
Content-Length: xxxx
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<D:locate-by-history xmlns:D="DAV:">
<D:version-history-set>
<D:href>http://repo.webdav.org/his/23</D:href>
<D:href>http://repo.webdav.org/his/84</D:href>
<D:href>http://repo.webdav.org/his/129</D:href>
<D:version-history-set/>
<D:prop>
</D:version-history>
</D:prop>
</D:locate-by-history>
>>RESPONSE
HTTP/1.1 207 Multi-Status
Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
Content-Length: xxxx
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<D:multistatus xmlns:D="DAV:">
<D:response>
<D:href>http://www.webdav.org/ws/public/x/test.html</D:href>
<D:propstat>
<D:prop>
<D:version-history>
<D:href>http://repo.webdav.org/his/23</D:href>
</D:version-history>
</D:prop>
<D:status>HTTP/1.1 200 OK</D:status>
</D:propstat>
</D:response>
</D:multistatus>
In this example, there is only one version-controlled member of
/ws/public that is a version-controlled resource for one of the three
specified version history resources. In particular,
/ws/public/x/test.html is the version-controlled resource for
http://repo.webdav.org/his/23.
5.5 Additional OPTIONS Semantics
If the server supports the version-history feature, it MUST include
"version-history" as a field in the DAV response header from an
OPTIONS request on any resource that supports any versioning
properties, reports, or methods.
A DAV:version-history-collection-set element MAY be included in the
request body to identify collections that may contain version history
resources.
Additional Marshalling:
If an XML request body is included, it MUST be a DAV:options XML
element.
<!ELEMENT options ANY>
ANY value: A sequence of elements with at most one
DAV:version-history-collection-set element.
If an XML response body for a successful request is included, it
MUST be a DAV:options-response XML element.
<!ELEMENT options-response ANY>
ANY value: A sequence of elements with at most one
DAV:version-history-collection-set element.
<!ELEMENT version-history-collection-set (href*)>
If DAV:version-history-collection-set is included in the request
body, the response body for a successful request MUST contain a
DAV:version-history-collection-set element identifying collections
that may contain version histories. An identified collection MAY
be the root collection of a tree of collections, all of which may
contain version histories. Since different servers can control
different parts of the URL namespace, different resources on the
same host MAY have different DAV:version-history-collection-set
values. The identified collections MAY be located on different
hosts from the resource.
5.6 Additional DELETE Semantics
Additional Postconditions:
(DAV:delete-version-set): If the request deleted a version
history, the request MUST have deleted all versions in the
DAV:version-set of that version history, and MUST have satisfied
the postconditions for version deletion (see Section 3.13).
(DAV:version-history-has-root): If the request deleted the root
version of a version history, the request MUST have updated the
DAV:root-version of the version history to refer to another
version that is an ancestor of all other remaining versions in
that version history. A result of this postcondition is that
every version history will have at least one version, and the only
way to delete all versions is to delete the version history
resource.
5.7 Additional COPY Semantics
Additional Preconditions:
(DAV:cannot-copy-history): If the request-URL identifies a version
history, the request MUST fail. In order to create another
version history whose versions have the same content and dead
properties, the appropriate sequence of VERSION-CONTROL, CHECKOUT,
PUT, PROPPATCH, and CHECKIN requests must be made.
5.8 Additional MOVE Semantics
Additional Preconditions:
(DAV:cannot-rename-history): If the request-URL identifies a
version history, the request MUST fail.
5.9 Additional VERSION-CONTROL Semantics
Additional Postconditions:
(DAV:new-version-history): If the request created a new version
history, the request MUST have allocated a new server-defined URL
for that version history that MUST NOT have previously identified
any other resource, and MUST NOT ever identify a resource other
than this version history.
5.10 Additional CHECKIN Semantics
Additional Postconditions:
(DAV:add-to-history): A URL for the new version resource MUST have
been added to the DAV:version-set of the version history of the
DAV:checked-out version.
6 Workspace Feature
In order to allow multiple users to work concurrently on adding
versions to the same version history, it is necessary to allocate on
the server multiple checked-out resources for the same version
history. Even if only one user is making changes to a resource, that
user will sometimes wish to create a "private" version, and then to
expose that version at a later time. One way to provide this
functionality depends on the client keeping track of its current set
of checked-out resources. This is the working-resource feature
defined in Section 8. The other way to provide this functionality
avoids the need for persistent state on the client, and instead has
the server maintain a human meaningful namespace for related sets of
checked-out resources. This is the workspace feature defined in this
section.
The workspace feature introduces a "workspace resource". A workspace
resource is a collection whose members are related version-controlled
and non-version-controlled resources. Multiple workspaces may be
used to expose different versions and configurations of a set of
version-controlled resources concurrently. In order to make changes
to a version-controlled resource in one workspace visible in another
workspace, that version-controlled resource must be checked in, and
then the corresponding version-controlled resource in the other
workspace can be updated to display the content and dead properties
of the new version.
In order to ensure unambiguous merging (see Section 11) and
baselining (see Section 12) semantics, a workspace may contain at
most one version-controlled resource for a given version history.
This is required for unambiguous merging because the MERGE method
must identify which version-controlled resource is to be the merge
target of a given version. This is required for unambiguous
baselining because a baseline can only select one version for a given
version-controlled resource.
Initially, an empty workspace can be created. Non-version-controlled
resources can then be added to the workspace with standard WebDAV
requests such as PUT and MKCOL. Version-controlled resources can be
added to the workspace with VERSION-CONTROL requests. If the
baseline feature is supported, collections in the workspace can be
placed under baseline control, and then initialized by existing
baselines.
6.1 Workspace Properties
The workspace feature introduces the following REQUIRED property for
a workspace.
6.1.1 DAV:workspace-checkout-set (computed)
This property identifies each checked-out resource whose
DAV:workspace property identifies this workspace.
<!ELEMENT workspace-checkout-set (href*)>
6.2 Additional Resource Properties
The workspace feature introduces the following REQUIRED property for
a WebDAV resource.
6.2.1 DAV:workspace (protected)
The DAV:workspace property of a workspace resource MUST identify
itself. The DAV:workspace property of any other type of resource
MUST be the same as the DAV:workspace of its parent collection.
<!ELEMENT workspace (href)>
6.3 MKWORKSPACE Method
A MKWORKSPACE request creates a new workspace resource. A server MAY
restrict workspace creation to particular collections, but a client
can determine the location of these collections from a
DAV:workspace-collection-set OPTIONS request (see Section 6.4).
If a MKWORKSPACE request fails, the server state preceding the
request MUST be restored.
Marshalling:
If a request body is included, it MUST be a DAV:mkworkspace XML
element.
<!ELEMENT mkworkspace ANY>
If a response body for a successful request is included, it MUST
be a DAV:mkworkspace-response XML element.
<!ELEMENT mkworkspace-response ANY>
The response MUST include a Cache-Control:no-cache header.
Preconditions:
(DAV:resource-must-be-null): A resource MUST NOT exist at the
request-URL.
(DAV:workspace-location-ok): The request-URL MUST identify a
location where a workspace can be created.
Postconditions:
(DAV:initialize-workspace): A new workspace exists at the
request-URL. The DAV:resourcetype of the workspace MUST be
DAV:collection. The DAV:workspace of the workspace MUST identify
the workspace.
6.3.1 Example - MKWORKSPACE
>>REQUEST
MKWORKSPACE /ws/public HTTP/1.1
Host: www.webdav.org
Content-Length: 0
>>RESPONSE
HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Cache-Control: no-cache
In this example, a new workspace is created at
http://www.webdav.org/ws/public.
6.4 Additional OPTIONS Semantics
If a server supports the workspace feature, it MUST include
"workspace" as a field in the DAV response header from an OPTIONS
request on any resource that supports any versioning properties,
reports, or methods.
If a server supports the workspace feature, it MUST also support the
checkout-in-place feature and the version-history feature.
A DAV:workspace-collection-set element MAY be included in the request
body to identify collections that may contain workspace resources.
Additional Marshalling:
If an XML request body is included, it MUST be a DAV:options XML
element.
<!ELEMENT options ANY>
ANY value: A sequence of elements with at most one
DAV:workspace-collection-set element.
If an XML response body for a successful request is included, it
MUST be a DAV:options-response XML element.
<!ELEMENT options-response ANY>