append, prepend, cas

[Brian Aker]

Hi!

My thought was use expiration and flags if the item is new (aka the  
action creates an object). Otherwise toss the values (or better yet,  
just make them optional to send).

Cheers,
	-Brian

On Nov 13, 2007, at 11:51 PM, dormando wrote:

>>
>> This issue is not addressed in the protocols document, so I wanted to
>> know how these operators were thought out. I would think it would  
>> make
>> more sense to have these operators extend and modify without having  
>> too
>> specifying these arguments (and possibly add an update method to  
>> modify
>> exptime and flags).
>>
>
> Looked over the implementation of APPEND and PREPEND. It presently
> overwrites the expiration time and flags using the new value.
>
> I'd like to toss this back for a round on the list:
>
> - Take the flags and exptime from 'old_item' before appending or
> prepending the value and ignore what was sent.
> - Only care about what was sent, leave things as they are.
> - Dunno? Change them if nonzero?
>
> Anyone care? Anyone planning on using append/prepend?
>
> -Dormando

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