docs: webapi: Add concise shorthand for options, input, output, and statuses to the...

I'm not convinced if this is the best way to do this, but I find it
handy to have a conscise "quick reference" for the webapi operations
which summarize all related I/O.

Another possibility is to reject this patch, but create a separate
"webapi_quickref.html" with a concise table.

diff --git a/docs/webapi.txt b/docs/webapi.txt
index c4c3ab84306e4141515785ea933729c926fe3fb4..1affc843e4bded0da73d0c7baa47b998835b77b4 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/webapi.txt
+++ b/docs/webapi.txt
@@ -94,6 +94,8 @@ d. examining files or directories
 
   GET $URL?t=json
 
+  out: json metadata
+
   This returns machine-parseable information about the indicated file or
   directory in the HTTP response body. The JSON always contains a list, and
   the first element of the list is always a flag that indicates whether the
@@ -132,6 +134,10 @@ e. downloading a file
 
   GET $URL
 
+  out: file contents or dir metadata
+  options:
+        save=<boolean> - If true add header "Content-Disposition: attachment"
+
   If the indicated object is a file, then this simply retrieves the contents
   of the file. The file's contents are provided in the body of the HTTP
   response.
@@ -160,6 +166,9 @@ f. uploading a file
 
   PUT http://localhost:8123/uri
 
+  in: file contents
+  out: file write cap
+
   Upload a file, returning its URI as the HTTP response body. This does not
   make the file visible from the virtual drive -- to do that, see section
   1.h. below, or the convenience method in section 2.a..
@@ -168,6 +177,9 @@ g. creating a new directory
 
   PUT http://localhost:8123/uri?t=mkdir
 
+  in: (nothing)
+  out: directory write cap
+
   Create a new empty directory and return its URI as the HTTP response body.
   This does not make the newly created directory visible from the virtual
   drive, but you can use section 1.h. to attach it, or the convenience method
@@ -177,6 +189,11 @@ h. attaching a file or directory as the child of an extant directory
 
   PUT $URL?t=uri
 
+  in: child cap
+  out: the same child cap
+  options:
+        replace=<boolean> - If true, overwrite existing contents.
+
   This attaches a child (either a file or a directory) to the given directory
   $URL is required to indicate a directory as the second-to-last element and
   the desired filename as the last element, for example:
@@ -191,7 +208,8 @@ h. attaching a file or directory as the child of an extant directory
   place, so we choose to use that particular directory to be the user's main
   directory.)
 
-  The URI of the child is provided in the body of the HTTP request.
+  The URI of the child is provided in the body of the HTTP request,
+  and this same URI is returned in the response body.
 
   There is an optional "?replace=" param whose value can be "true", "t", "1",
   "false", "f", or "0" (case-insensitive), and which defaults to "true". If
@@ -230,6 +248,13 @@ a. uploading a file and attaching it to the vdrive
 
   PUT $URI
 
+  in: file contents
+  out: file write cap
+
+  statuses:
+  200 - File updated.  [FIXME: Is this true yet?]
+  201 - File created.  [FIXME: Is this true yet?]
+
   Upload a file and link it into the the vdrive at the location specified by
   $URI. The last item in the $URI must be a filename, and the second-to-last
   item must identify a directory.