pudo — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 07:37:29 GMT

I propose we do a bit of frameworkiness here: set up a two-part content type registry and refactor the API controller to use it.

The idea would be to do the following things:

Create a registry mapping format extensions to mime types: RepresentationRegistry?.add_format('json', 'application/json')
Create a registry of (mime types, entity types) -> converter functions that yield an appropriate representation of the entity.
Hook this into the _finish method of the API controller based on Accept: handling
Add support for /api/rest/ENTITY/NAME.{format} and /ENTITY/NAME.{format} to routing, use registry from (1) to rewrite accept headers.
Register converters in load_environment or via IConfigurable plugins
Document

What do you think?

cc set

amercader — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 09:26:45 GMT

status changed; resolution set

pudo — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 10:27:51 GMT

Now available in ckanext-rdf and linked to from WUI.