[cosmo-dev] Projections in Atom links

[Brian Moseley]

On Jan 5, 2008 6:46 PM, Travis Vachon <travis at osafoundation.org> wrote:

> I've been thinking about bug 11613 (https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11613
> ) today and was wondering if there's a reason we include projections
> on links other than the self links in Atom representations of items.
>  From a client perspective I'm beginning to suspect it might be
> simpler (for example, to get different projections of the "expanded"
> link) if they were omitted. I see in the comments of
> BaseItemFeedGenerator that "[projections being added] is usually done
> for read links but not edit links" and was hoping I this could be
> elaborated upon.

I can't think of any particular reason.

ideally the client wouldn't need to be coded to stuff projection
identifiers onto canonical URLs. probably we should include links in
canonical feed and entry documents to URLs for each projection.