[Registry-dev] Atom Atom everywhere

[Glen Daniels]

Hi folks:

I think our suggested use of Atom in a couple of places in the protocol 
[1] is overkill.  In particular, POSTing a full Atom entry in order to 
tag seems a little silly.  The only thing the entry contains is the tag 
name and the author - well, we know the author when using HTTP anyway 
because we're using HTTP authentication.  So IMO this should really just 
be POST "tag=<tagname>" and that's it.

Same for rating.  POST "rating=rating".

Keep it as simple as possible, and make it as easy as possible to use. 
Doing it this way would mean simple web forms can tag or rate, which is 
a bonus.

Thoughts?

--Glen

[1] http://wso2.org/wiki/display/registry/Registry+Protocol