Usage of HAL #224
Description
Pacifica Metadata version
0.10.0
Pacifica Core Software versions
1.0
Platform Details
Any
Scenario:
Attempting to use the REST API is not standard...
- Order of attributes in JSON objects should correspond to sort-order of fields in records #76
- Adhere to RESTful Web Services conventions #86
- White-list query parameters #87
If we try and use a specification like http://stateless.co/hal_specification.html we can offload all the implementation details to a library that can standardize on these features. This would be a good 2.0 API change that would resolve the issues above and others not mentioned yet.
Some implementations to consider...
- https://github.com/vertical-knowledge/ripozo
- https://pypi.org/project/Flask-HAL/
- https://pypi.org/project/halogen/
Seems like CherryPy might be lacking in integrations with these standards. Flask seems to have a lot more glue codes written to SQLAlchemy to support the object REST API for the model...