Re: issue: collection typing

[Robert Sayre <mint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dare Obasanjo wrote:

> Two questions: 
>
> 1.) Can you give me examples of administrative tasks
> vs. basic tasks? 

Adminisrative tasks were considered to be things like managing users, 
setting permissions, CRUD on templates and categories. Basic tasks were 
considered to be CRUD on entries and "simple resources" (e.g. jpeg 
files, word docs, etc).

> 2.) Is the assumption that people may write clients
> that only perform basic tasks but not administrative
> tasks? 

Yes, but there's also an assumption that servers may not want to 
implement the administrative tasks.

> > From my perpective it is likely that clients may want
> to support even smaller subsets than just
> administrative vs. basic so that split may not be
> terribly useful in practice. 

I think split is mostly there for editorial reasons. A large document 
covering the entire scope might not be a good idea for people coming to 
the document wondering what PUT is, or folks who just want to figure out 
how to POST a photo from their favorite device.

Robert Sayre