notes.txt

   1 Commands:
   2
   3         GET /
   4                 list top-level objects
   5
   6         POST /
   7                 global control operations (none defined)
   8
   9         POST /_factory bucket=x,...
  10                 create bucket with attributes
  11
  12         GET /bucket
  13                 list bucket contents
  14
  15         GET /bucket?query=xxx
  16                 query bucket contents
  17
  18         POST /bucket
  19                 bucket-level control operations
  20
  21         POST /bucket/_factory key=x,...
  22                 create object with attributes
  23
  24         DELETE /bucket
  25                 delete bucket (must be empty)
  26
  27         GET /bucket/object
  28                 get body/attr* list
  29
  30         POST /bucket/object op=repl
  31                 trigger re-replication
  32
  33         DELETE /bucket/object
  34                 delete object
  35
  36         GET /bucket/object/body
  37                 get object body
  38
  39         PUT /bucket/object/body
  40                 put object body
  41
  42         GET /bucket/object/attrs
  43                 get all attributes
  44
  45         POST /bucket/object/attrs
  46                 set multiple attributes
  47
  48         GET /bucket/object/attr_X
  49                 get attribute X
  50
  51         PUT /bucket/object/attr_X
  52                 set attribute X
  53
  54         DELETE /bucket/object/attr_X
  55                 delete attribute X
  56
  57         POST /bucket/object/_control op=repl
  58                 trigger re-replication
  59
  60 Formats:
  61
  62         JSON bucket list
  63         [
  64                 {
  65                         "type": "bucket_factory",
  66                         "path": ".../_factory"
  67                 },
  68                 {
  69                         "type": "bucket",
  70                         "name": "bucketA",
  71                         "path": ".../bucketA"
  72                 },
  73                 {
  74                         "type": "bucket",
  75                         "name": "bucketB",
  76                         "path": ".../bucketB"
  77                 }
  78         ]
  79
  80         JSON object list
  81         [
  82                 {
  83                         "type": "object_factory",
  84                         "path": ".../bucketA/_factory"
  85                 },
  86                 {
  87                         "type": "object",
  88                         "name": "objectC",
  89                         "path": ".../bucketA/objectC"
  90                 },
  91                 {
  92                         "type": "object",
  93                         "name": "objectD",
  94                         "path": ".../bucketA/objectD"
  95                 }
  96         ]
  97
  98         JSON body/attribute list
  99         [
 100                 {
 101                         "type": "body",
 102                         "path": ".../bucketA/objectC/body"
 103                 },
 104                 {
 105                         "type": "multi_attributes",
 106                         "path": ".../bucketA/objectC/attrs"
 107                 },
 108                 {
 109                         "type": "single_attribute",
 110                         "name": "abc",
 111                         "path": ".../bucketA/objectC/attr_abc"
 112                 }
 113                 {
 114                         "type": "single_attribute",
 115                         "name": "xyz",
 116                         "path": ".../bucketA/objectC/attr_xyz"
 117                 }
 118         ]
 119
 120
 121 To Do - priority (1 highest) work (5 largest) desc:
 122         1 1 policy inheritance
 123         1 2 delete metadata as well as data
 124         1 3 re-replicate on policy change (single object)
 125         2 2 manual re-replication trigger
 126         --- done
 127         1 5 auth
 128         2 4 writes proxied upstream
 129         2 5 reconcile dispatch with object with commands/format above
 130         3 3 content types
 131         3 3 fix string handling (eliminate strtok)
 132         3 4 re-replicate on policy change (default)
 133         3 5 replicated DB
 134         4 2 check for existence before queuing repl job
 135         4 2 use MongoDB C driver now that it's supported
 136         4 3 chunked encoding
 137         4 5 immediate inline replication
 138         4 5 fully modular FS/S3/CF driver structure
 139         4 5 generate MongoDB queries from ours
 140         5 2 deletes proxied upstream
 141         5 3 cache control (TTL?)
 142         partial-object reads
 143         partial-object writes?
 144