RESTful Storage API ?

[Tom Zeller]

>> 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.
>
> In my experience Web service APIs (RESTful or otherwise) are provided
> for tooling and integration. For example, the RESTful API could provide
> orthogonal functionality (complementing get/put/delete) for monitoring
> and management capabilities to query for storage metadata like storage
> capacity, item count per namespace, and expiration statistics.
> Alternatively, you could expose the core get/put/delete functionality in
> a Web service for clients that can't integrate naturally via supported
> protocols.

Like use curl to query the storage service for its load periodically
and graph via an RRDtool tool ?

Makes me think though, that some sort of default monitoring of
services would be nice, like the StatusServlet but better.