These are some old tickets from HERE that are really Binder issues. They're also wishlist stuff that has been open for years.
Maybe these should be tickets on github. Then again, if we're never gonna do them it's just more noise. Let's park them here for now.
Instead of full English text messages, like now. The Front-End should translate.
Filter not with ?.foo=5, but with a query language ?filter=.
This would allow a lot more than we can currently do, including nested expressions and OR clauses.
Exmaple: ?filter=status:is:3:or:source:is:"foo" See ticket for full grammar.
https://phabricator.codeyellow.nl/T2944
This would allow more reusability. Let 2 views (for different parts of the application) use the same serializer. See also Django Rest Framework.
Like ?with, but as embedded json, instead of provided separately.
https://phabricator.codeyellow.nl/T2942
This would sometimes make it a lot easier to calculate/manipulate custom attributes.
Maybe include the model in the dict? Or return models with the dict as a property? Or both in a tuple? Or split out getting/preparation of objects and parsing them into dicts?
Refactor to remove duplicate field resolution code in _get_with() _parse_filter() _parse_order_by()
Let the front-end choose which fields it wants. Like ?with, but for normal fields, not related entities.
This could greatly speed up getting and parsing large quantities of large objects where the FE only really needs several fields.