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[Aaron Bentley <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 12-02-21 04:42 PM, Robert Collins wrote:
> So, the API is *capable* of being round trip efficient for any use
> we would make of it in a web page. Some of our 'magic' glue however
> will be in the way and in the short term is best avoided. E.g. a
> collection of nested dicts can be trivially returned by an API
> call; a collection of Bug objects will return only the Bug object
> representations themselves.

We may be in violent agreement.

You are suggesting we should add new API calls that return the
specific collection of objects we need for the web page, in order to
be efficient?  That sounds okay, but it does sound like a change.

Aaron
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