Proposal Atom Protocol Comment Support

Abstract

Make it possible for an AtomPub client application to create, retrieve update and delete comments for each weblog entries.

Requirements

• CRUD on weblog entry comments
• Don't invent if protocol already exists
  • e.g. consider this http://xml.coverpages.org/draft-snell-atompub-feed-thread-12.txt)

Issues

• What about entries that do not allow comments or limit time that they are allowed

Design

Currently, these URIs are supported for entries:

/roller-services/app/[weblog-handle>/entries
Entry collection for a blog
 
/roller-services/app/[weblog-handle]/entries/[offset]
Entry collection for a blog, with offset

/roller-services/app/[weblog-handle]/entry/[id]
Individual entry (i.e. edit URI)

We will add these URIs for comments:

/roller-services/app/[weblog-handle]/entry/[id]/comments
Comments collection for entry with id

/roller-services/app/[weblog-handle]/entry/[id]/comments/id
Individual comment

Each entry will include a <link> with relation 'replies' that points to the entry's comment collection.

Comments

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