Dear list,
I have a use case where multiple distributed processes make use of a shared basex instance using the REST interface. Unfortunately executing PUT /rest/mydb creates an empty database regardless of whether it contains files or not. Is there a config option or something else to not overwrite existing databases? Otherwise I have to implement a locking mechanism.
Regards, Björn
Hi Björn,
The BaseX admin user can be compared with the Unix root user. In productive environments, you should avoid the admin account and create additional, task-specific users. For example, you may want to create a user, which only has read/update permissions for specific databases [1].
Hope this helps, Christian
[1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/User_Management
On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 3:31 PM Braunschweig, Björn bjoern.braunschweig@gwdg.de wrote:
Dear list,
I have a use case where multiple distributed processes make use of a shared basex instance using the REST interface. Unfortunately executing PUT /rest/mydb creates an empty database regardless of whether it contains files or not. Is there a config option or something else to not overwrite existing databases? Otherwise I have to implement a locking mechanism.
Regards, Björn
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