Hi, Age. The Link header in HTTP as used by Riak is defined by RFC 5988. In the Link Relation Type registry (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5988#section-6.2.2) you can see that the relation type "up" refers to a parent document in a hierarchy of documents. In Riak, this means the bucket a key is in.
These are not Riak's own links, but rather an additional use of the Link header form which may be useful to some clients. I hope that this helps. -Justin On Jul 12, 2013, at 1:52 PM, Age Mooij <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I've been looking at links and link walking and I noticed that Riak very > often returns a special type of link with rel="up" instead of a riaktag, > which is illegal for users to create. > > What is the purpose of this link? (beyond the reasonably obvious "this key > belongs to bucket X). Why was it added? > Are there other "rels" than "up"? > Can they be followed through link walking? > > This behavior is not documented anywhere that I (or Google) could find. > > Age _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
