[Registry-dev] API method to get resource metadata

[Sanjiva Weerawarana]

+1 and I suggest that this be bound to HEAD in the HTTP protocol.

Sanjiva.

Chathura C. Ekanayake wrote:
> 
> We (Dr. Sanjiva, Deepal and I) discussed about adding a new method to 
> the Registry API to get the resource metadata without retrieving the 
> resource content.
> The method we agreed is:
> 
> Resource getResourceMatadata(String path);
> 
> This method returns a Resource object with content set to null. There 
> are many use cases for this method in the registry web UI and in the APP 
> interface.
> In both these cases, we need to get the metadata. But we need the actual 
> content only when a user wants to download the resource.
> Therefore, we can use getResourceMatadata(...) method in these scenarios 
> to process requests efficiently.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chathura
> 
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