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Is there a proper way of ensuring only one user at a time makes changes to an object with REST HTTP?
# the Django model
 class Thing(models.Model):
      name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
      description = models.TextField()

 # the Tastypie Resource
 class ThingResource(ModelResource):
       class Meta:
           queryset = Thing.objects.all()

#1 User 1: Opens app viewing Thing #1 with name = "my name", description = "my description"
#2 User 2: Opens app viewing Thing #1 (same state as User 1)
#3 User 2: Changes description of Thing #1 to "something"
#4 User 1: Changes name of Thing #1 to "some other name"

If-Unmodified-Since: <date-noted-from-initial-GET>

If-Match: <etag-noted-from-initial-GET>