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.
As a counter-example, Launchpad's REST API provides a WADL[1] description extracted from the code, but this makes it way too heavyweight for my tastes. 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.
Cheers, -Barry
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Application_Description_Language