I can understand how exposing that level of structure may be a risk in some circumstances but it allows for a huge leg up on the client side code. Things like https://github.com/GonzaloAlvarez/restangular-hateoas provide a superbly simple way to wrap a UI around the whole thing if you have HATEOAS on the server side. It’s as close as you can get to a CRUD UI with seriously minimal code. Also, this is the data format provided by spring-data-rest, so it’s a format that already has wide acceptance.
I suppose one could enable this only for specific paths if security was a concern. -Bruce From: Jason Bailey <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 at 11:05 AM To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: RE: HATEOAS compliant json self/child references from sling? Not unless you add it yourself. As a note, you may not want to design your application where you are relying on the default json renderer to supply information to the front end client. It can reveal more information and structure then a lot of people are comfortable with. -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Edge [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 1:49 PM To: users Subject: HATEOAS compliant json self/child references from sling? Can one retrieve HATEOAS format responses form sling? %> curl -qu admin:admin http://localhost:8090/var/content.tidy.json { "jcr:createdBy": "admin", "jcr:mimeType": "application/octet-stream", "jcr:created": "Sat Nov 08 2014 16:17:51 GMT-0800", "jcr:lastModified": "Sat Nov 08 2014 16:17:51 GMT-0800", "jcr:primaryType": "sling:Folder" } Using a HATEOAS server I would expect something like this: { "jcr:createdBy": "admin", "jcr:mimeType": "application/octet-stream", "jcr:created": "Sat Nov 08 2014 16:17:51 GMT-0800", "jcr:lastModified": "Sat Nov 08 2014 16:17:51 GMT-0800", "jcr:primaryType": ³sling:Folder" "_links":{ "self":{ "href":"http://localhost:8090/var/content"; } } } Is it possible to have sling insert both self and child references into all json responses? -Bruce
