Clone API

Let's say we have an account and a named subdomain. Because we're using named subdomains, the Gateway has a clone of the information in the (sub)domain.

Normally in an app using m-ld, clients clone the domain locally and manipulate its data directly. However there are a number of reasons a client may not want to do this, such as:

• The client only has occasional need for data;
• It doesn't have enough storage capacity to clone the whole domain;
• No clone engine exists for its platform.

The 'clone' (noun, not verb) API is provided for such a client to access the data remotely over HTTP.

Some data can be added to the domain with:

POST https://gw.m-ld.org/api/v1/domain/≪account name≫/≪subdomain≫/state
Authorization: Basic ≪base64(≪account name≫:≪account key≫)≫
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "@id": "Client-0005",
  "company_name": "The Flintstones"
}

Data in the domain can be queried with:

GET https://gw.m-ld.org/api/v1/domain/≪account name≫/≪subdomain≫/state
Authorization: Basic ≪base64(≪account name≫:≪account key≫)≫
Accept: application/json
[QueryStringParams]
q: {"@describe":"?id","@where":{"@id":"?id"}} # to be URL-encoded as the query string

This example query describes all the subjects in the domain, which is to say, their top-level properties.