[OASIS Issue Tracker] (CAMP-188) Optionally serialize Entities alongside Links

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Gilbert Pilz commented on CAMP-188:
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I've created an illustration of a hypothetical CAMP assembly here: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/camp/download.php/55700/camp-188-model.pdf

The application described by this assembly isn't very plausible, but the idea is to reference a common example resource tree when we discuss the various proposals to this issue. If people do that, I think we will have an easier time comparing the various proposals as the only difference will be in the protocol and not the underlying data.

> Optionally serialize Entities alongside Links
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>
>                 Key: CAMP-188
>                 URL: https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/CAMP-188
>             Project: OASIS Cloud Application Management for Platforms (CAMP) TC
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 1.2
>            Reporter: Mike Norman
>            Priority: Minor
>
> IN the List resources, the Links are name/href pairs.  This means that if you have a client widget such as a table which displays attributes (other than just the name) of, for example, assemblies it needs to retrieve the assemblies and then iterate through the LInks array retrieving the underlying entities. This is do-able, but it is very unconventional and makes the API very chatty.  You would normally expect the Links entities to be actual json lists containing the attributes.
> Clearly there has been a design decision to allow the implementation to be decoupled at these URIs, but this si the exception not the rule so we need to consider whether there is a way of making the general case less chatty.



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