On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Bob Dionne <dio...@dionne-associates.com> wrote: > Benoit, > > Thanks for mentioning the "links" item, that should definitely be in the > list. I'd be curious to know what kind if usage the Basho folks have seen > with that one. > > I think it's a good feature but I also think it kind of runs against the > grain architecturally in couchdb. Documents now are completely independent of > one another which is simple. This forces use cases that need "links" to do so > in the application layer. There are many reasons I think of that folks would > want this, building trees, graphs, SQL-like queries, navigation, etc. so I > think it's a nice feature to add, *but* I would do so in a way that doesn't > change the independence of documents, .ie. make it orthogonal, a plugin to > core. > > Bob >
Agree. As an implementation detail I wish we could follow a specification to do that. Maybe HAL fits our needs instead HTTP Link headers: - http://stateless.co/hal_specification.html - http://blog.stateless.co/post/13296666138/json-linking-with-hal - benoît
