[Registry-dev] Atom Atom everywhere

[Paul Fremantle]

Glen

I completely agree. +1 to simple POSTs.

However, I also want to make sure that someone using a third-party APP 
library has a consistent way of rating and tagging that works without 
them having to drop down to their HTTP client code. So I think we should 
keep the APP way as well (or maybe improve it... I haven't looked at the 
details yet).

Paul

Glen Daniels wrote:
> 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
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