RESTful Storage API ?

[Cantor, Scott]

> As I clumsily mentioned on the last dev call, I have been wondering if
> providing a StorageServiceServlet with a RESTful API would be a good
> idea or not.

I don't know, it's six of one to do something like that internally in a storage plugin itself, in which case you don't have to standardize that interface. What's the use case in general? It's pretty much memcache to stick an API in front of an in-memory store on some other shared host.

> That said, I have not implemented a RESTful API, so I do not really
> know what I am asking, but it looks to me that the current Storage API
> would preclude a RESTful interface without an abstraction layer.

There are very few true REST APIs that I've ever seen and I don't spend much time thinking about it, so I wouldn't really know what to do make an API not require an abstraction layer, or why that would even be a problem.

-- Scott