GSOC idea: json api for plone

After discussing this topic with other sprinters at the cathedralsprint,
I think a JSON API for Plone would make a nice project.

Some of us feel a strong need for a generic JSON API. That can help us
to build modern user interfaces, decoupled from the backend and for data
exchange with other web services. Best would be to implement some
standard, like JSON-LD ( http://json-ld.org/ ,
http://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld/ ), which'd give us semantic data exchange,
which is awesome (more and more web services are agnostic about their
data-backend and implement real mashup services). Or Hydra:
Hypermedia-Driven Web APIs http://www.markus-lanthaler.com/hydra/

I agree with Martin, that designing an API needs much experience. But I
don't see here a blocker for a GSOC project:

- There are open standards, which can be implemented (as mentioned
above), 
- The mentor can guide, review and optimize the API,
- The framework can do this via reviews also.

So, what about that?

Best,
Johannes



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