Barry Warsaw writes: > On Mar 29, 2017, at 02:07 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > >Would it be possible to automate this? I haven't thought carefully > >about it, specifically security issues. However, there could (in > >theory) be an automated export of "all parameters" in "expert mode" or > >"site/list initialization mode". > > It's probably near impossible to automate, because the Core's REST > API isn't programmatically discoverable.
Right (I did know that). I was thinking "decorator". > As a counter-example, Launchpqad's REST API provides a WADL[1] description > extracted from the code, but this makes it way too heavyweight for my tastes. You have good taste, I'll grant that. ;-) > And because the Core uses a dynamic object-based traversal system > (inherited from restish and ported to falcon) it would make any > kind of static REST API description pretty difficult to generate. OK. Would you recommend against even exploring for a lightweight approach for some reason? Ie, the idea is bad according to some principle? _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
