Problem/Motivation

Currently the menu resource does not provide enough information to construct a new representation of the menu in a decoupled environment. Any links contained within that menu are not represented within the response.

Proposed resolution

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Remaining tasks

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User interface changes

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API changes

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Data model changes

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Agreed that this is useful. I'm wondering whether we should expose the tree structure or flatten it and let the client deal with the hierarchy.
On top of that I'm wondering whether there are best practises around exposing hierarchical structures in general.

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#4: great questions!

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I think exposing the tree structure makes the most sense, it puts the effort of reconstruction on the client, and we also aren't forcing something on them. Possibly something like the following? 

{
  ... 
  "items": [{
    "title": "Contact Us",
    "href": "http://mysite.dev/contact",
    "weight": "-50",
    "depth": "1",
    "children": [{
      "title": "Phone",
      "href": "http://mysite.dev/contact/phone",
      "weight": "1",
      "depth": "2",
      "children": []
    }]
  }]
}

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Apparently there is a contrib module that provides this: https://www.drupal.org/project/rest_menu_tree.

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Status: Active » Postponed

And there's also https://www.drupal.org/project/rest_menu_items, which appears to be more popular and more complete.

Since there are 2 options in contrib, marking this as postponed. It's probably better to let this mature in contrib first.

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Component: rest.module » jsonapi.module
Status: Postponed » Active
Issue tags: +API-First Initiative

Focus has shifted to jsonapi.module instead of rest.module, so changing component.

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