Reference Traversal in Sling URLs

[Jason Rose]

Hello all,

Following up on the JIRA case that Felix quickly addressed and the  
discussion that came out of it, it appears that sling will be very  
useful in my current project.   I'm planning on using sling as my  
backend with sproutcore as the rich client front end.  It seems the  
cleanest way from a REST perspective is to allow dereferencing  
properties in URLs so that the client can follow relationships.

In my previous posts, I was using an example of a many-to-many  
relationship between users and regions.  I'll try to stick to that  
convention in these posts as well.

For example, if I wanted to see all the regions that all the users  
assigned to a specific region are assigned to, I think that path would  
look like this, omitting the URL prefix: "/regions/<uuid>/users/ 
regions.json"

I'm interested in what the devs think about this sort of usage of  
sling, what sort of suggestions they have, and where in the code I  
should look to implement these changes.

-Jason