[Ocs] Proposal for new field in CONTENT module

[Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen]

On Friday 17 August 2012 11:50:15 Laszlo Papp wrote:
> >   As we already discussed this at the sprint, i'm sure i really only need
> > 
> > to
> > remind people of the existence of this, and expect to get a message akin
> > to
> > "Well, go and write it in the 1.7 draft, then!", which of course i will do
> > as
> > soon as i hear back ;)
> 
> I would personally prefer not to go this way. My suggestion is to add
> "children" fields how that is also used throughout the specification for
> other services like forum, comments, and so forth. This would make the OCS
> v1 version more consistent with the rest.

  That would make sense for one direction, however we need the information in 
both directions. Also, since users aren't allowed to edit other users' content 
items, it would be problematic to suddenly add such information to content/get 
as it would indicate it has been vetted somehow (as everything else returned 
by that call is provided by the owner, not by others). However, if that is 
deemed to not be a problem by everybody else here, then i don't have any real 
issue with that idea.
  A note, though: For adding, the information should need to be given on 
adding and editing the child item, though presumably that would go without 
saying. The information in content/get would then become an aggregation, akin 
to the comments number.

> As for OCS v2, I will prefer to go with a different approach. Once, the
> JSON specification is in the OCS v1 specification, I can help more with
> OCSv2.
>
> As a side note, there is such a query:
> http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/open-collaboration-services/#depe
> ndencies
> 
> It is unfortunate, it does not have an id parameter for the URL. If adding
> an ID there breaks the interface, it cannot be fixed from that side either.

  That is exactly /why/ this field was proposed, and why the name is not 
dependencies. It was, of course, discussed at the sprint.

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