Feature: REST API Project

[JeremyCaney]

Currently, the OnTopic Editor has a basic read-only JSON interface, as well as some built-in actions for handling updates, but it's highly specific to the Editor and doesn't support other clients.

Ideally, we'd establish a new e.g. TopicJsonController that exposes a full REST API that can be used by not only the OnTopic Editor, but also any other clients that need AJAX access to the OnTopic database.

Questions

• Can this be registered as part of the OnTopic Editor so it doesn't need to be independently configured?
• Should this support both read and write operations? Or just read operations? Or both, via separate services?
• If it supports write operations, how should authorization be handled?
• How would we handle sensitive data such as user records? Would these be hidden by an attribute that necessitates authentication?
• Should this utilize the OnTopic Data Transfer library as a standard interchange format? If so, it makes sense as a separate repository.