# REST: POST EHR directory twice, what happens?

**Category:** [ITS](https://discourse.openehr.org/c/its/41)
**Created:** 2020-03-09 06:12 UTC
**Views:** 443
**Replies:** 3
**URL:** https://discourse.openehr.org/t/rest-post-ehr-directory-twice-what-happens/432

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## Post #1 by @matijap

What should happen in the EHR directory is created (POST) twice? PUT is used for updates and requires `If-Match` to prevent conflicting concurrent updates. POST should probably return 409 Conflict if EHR already has a directory?

https://specifications.openehr.org/releases/ITS-REST/latest/ehr.html#directory-directory-post

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## Post #2 by @sebastian.iancu

Yes, I think you are right

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## Post #3 by @matijap

I filed an issue for that: https://openehr.atlassian.net/projects/SPECITS/issues/SPECITS-44

I set fixVersion to 1.1.0, although this is actually more of a "bug fix", so if there ever is a 1.0.2 version released, it should go there.

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## Post #4 by @birger.haarbrandt

A bit late to the party here, but we independently did this exactly as described (409 Conflict) in EHRbase.

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