JavaScript code should not be requesting XHTML representations from the web service

[Māris Fogels]

JavaScript in Launchpad should not be requesting the default XHTML representation from the webservice, just so it can cherry-pick the specific attributes that the code needs. Instead, the code should request just the fields it needs.

[Björn Tillenius (bjornt)]

On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 01:57:49PM -0000, Māris Fogels wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> JavaScript in Launchpad should not be requesting the default XHTML
> representation from the webservice, just so it can cherry-pick the
> specific attributes that the code needs. Instead, the code should
> request just the fields it needs.

I assume the plan is to remove the default XHTML representation as well,
so that people aren't tempted to use it?

[Māris Fogels (mars)]

2009/12/2 Björn Tillenius <email address hidden>:
> On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 01:57:49PM -0000, Māris Fogels wrote:
>> Public bug reported:
>>
>> JavaScript in Launchpad should not be requesting the default XHTML
>> representation from the webservice, just so it can cherry-pick the
>> specific attributes that the code needs.  Instead, the code should
>> request just the fields it needs.
>
> I assume the plan is to remove the default XHTML representation as well,
> so that people aren't tempted to use it?
>

Correct, the default should be removed. Pages can create their own all-in-one representation if they want.

[Tim Penhey (thumper)]

What we are doing now with lazr.restful 0.17.0 is to get json with included lp_html. This allows us to keep the client cache up to date.

[Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot)]

Fixed in stable r12478 <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/stable/revision/12478>.