Thomas Jaeckle

> I was pondering with the idea of not requiring any id in request url, so that you did not need to first fetch the policyId from the resource itself....

It could still be, but with even lower priority when #288 is in place.

Hi. I would have expected that the `datacontenttype`is the IANA registered content type for Ditto Protocol: https://www.eclipse.org/ditto/protocol-specification.html#content-type And that `data`would simply be a Ditto Protocol message. I don't see benefits...

Ah, I see. On the thing level this is already possible today using conditional requests with "If-Match" header and the Thing's revision: https://www.eclipse.org/ditto/httpapi-concepts.html#conditional-headers What is missing is providing that as...

When using the [merge thing](https://www.eclipse.org/ditto/protocol-specification-things-merge.html) done in #950 the implicit convenient creation of parent objects already exists. So we might also close this issue.

Ah, colleagues gave me a hint that the `_ts` approach should perform quite nicely. Should even work with the `ObjectId` type: http://api.mongodb.org/java/current/org/bson/types/ObjectId.html I will have a deeper look into this...

Do the replica set's clocks even need to be in sync? Inserts are always done on the primary, aren't they? I must admit that I'm not that firm with mongodb....

I understand that under this conditions this won't make it in the plugin. For me, such strong consistency requirements are not needed, so I'll try writing my own PersistenceQuery then...

Cool, thx @kolotu 👍

Hi. Any status update on this issue? When using gs-collections together with "reactor" in an OSGi environment it would really help to have a working OSGi bundle.