Add expansion of resources.
Review Request #1560 — Created May 1, 2010 and submitted — Latest diff uploaded
Add expansion of resources. Any sub-object (results of a query, or a linked Model) will now be represented by default as an href. To expand any of these, callers can now pass ?expand=, which takes a comma-separated list of resources. These will be expanded. The expanded resources listed may be items that were found in other expanded resources. This is a decent way of reducing the number of HTTP requests going over the wire. It increases the number of SQL queries, especially when expanding in lists, but those queries would be made anyway. This is dependent on /r/1559
Tested with a variety of expansion options. Things seemed to work as I'd expect.