On May 11, 2012, at 10:35 AM, Thomas Mortagne wrote:

> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Marius Dumitru Florea
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi devs,
>> 
>> While debugging the failing REST integration tests I discovered an
>> inconsistency in the page REST resource. Take for instance the
>> response returned for this URL:
>> 
>> /xwiki/rest/wikis/xwiki/spaces/Blog/pages/BlogIntroduction
>> 
>> * The returned content is the raw (not rendered) content. In this
>> particular case, since the blog post content is saved in the blog post
>> object, and also because the blog uses the new sheet system, the raw
>> content of Blog.BlogIntroduction page is empty
>> 
>> * The returned title is the display title (i.e. the rendered title).
>> In this particular case, since the raw title is empty, but the blog
>> post sheet, which controls how the title is displayed, renders the
>> 'title' property of the blog post.
>> 
>> The inconsistency is that the content is raw while the title is
>> rendered. I think the page REST resource should provide data in the
>> first place, so raw title. It could provide the rendered title or
>> content additionally, but that is secondary IMO.
>> 
>> WDYT?
> 
> I agree. The default behavior of REST should be to return data.
> Especially since thee is nothing here to indicate in which syntax to
> output the title.

I agree too. We need to decide how to handle this change though since it's 
going to break backward compat.

Thanks
-Vincent

>> I'll fix the REST integration tests by using a page that doesn't have a 
>> sheet.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Marius
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