RESTful API Support

@akinuri Jim (rest in peace) was our REST guru and had big plans for more development when he had to step back during his illness. Since then we haven’t had any experts around, though I’ve tried to keep up with the support classes. The main “missing” component is a REST filter that Jim had planned which would handle (I imagine) most of the parsing and formatting you are asking about. Despite talking with him about it multiple times, this filter still seemed magically abstruse to me, so I have never attempted it.

You seem to have some great REST expertise, and I would welcome your knowledge for improving the framework’s offerings. Would you be willing to parse these roadblocks into actual issues and post them on GitHub for individual discussion and resolution?