If I'm not mistaken, the thought is that if this relatively simpler
service experiment goes well, then it will make sense to go ahead with
pursuit of the bigger composite service (and probably a suite of services
in due time).
>
Right, so we both agree we should start simplest—I just forgot the initial
scope of this task:
Scope: the service takes an article name, and serves article content in a
text-only format (but including wikilinks and external
links).
IOW: just learning about node, not necessarily building something we'll use
in production.
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Adam Baso <abaso(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> I'd also like to add an "if-modified-since" support, so we can send
GET
>> requests but only have data sent back over the wire if it's newer than
>> Revision X or some etag has expired, etc.
>>
>
> Agreed.
>
>
>> Why aren't we doing something to solve a problem w/ the current apps?
>> For example, aggregating image info and article info together into one
>> response?
>>
>
If I'm not mistaken, the thought is that if this relatively simpler
service experiment goes well, then it will make sense to go ahead with
pursuit of the bigger composite service (and probably a suite of services
in due time).
>
>
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