Proposed feature: return list of TDs instead of full TD

[6d77]

Currently the search APIs always return the full TD for each result. This could be a lot, especially when performing a full list.

It would be very useful (even for the default Web UI) to have some means to return a list of Things only together with the links to retrieve the full TDs.

[vcharpenay]

One of the objectives of the TDir has been to have it implement the IETF Resource Directory spec, which exchanges data in the CoRE Link format. (Since both the latter and the TD spec are in the making, it is hard to keep implementation up-to-date.)

The original idea was to use content negotiation for this feature:

• if Accept is set to application/json, the full TD documents are returned
• if it is set to application/link-format, only links are returned (in the CoRE Link format)

Is that satisfactory?

[6d77]

Would be perfectly fine for me!