"format=mutable" in the web API #2227

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zooko · 2014-04-21T06:08:26Z

zooko commented

2014-04-21 06:08:26 +00:00

According to [webapi.rst]source:trunk/docs/frontends/webapi.rst?rev=0ef593947755a8b81edc73d033219724268faf80#writing-uploading-a-file, you have to specify either format=MDMF or format=SDMF when creating a mutable file. However the user of an API might not know or care what is the difference between those two, and might also want to automatically start using a newer format if that newer format becomes the default, without changing the client code. This ticket is to add format=mutable which uses the default mutable format.

According to [webapi.rst]source:trunk/docs/frontends/webapi.rst?rev=0ef593947755a8b81edc73d033219724268faf80#writing-uploading-a-file, you have to specify either `format=MDMF` or `format=SDMF` when creating a mutable file. However the user of an API might not know or care what is the difference between those two, and might also want to automatically start using a newer format if that newer format becomes the default, without changing the client code. This ticket is to add `format=mutable` which uses the default mutable format.