469410 - Personas JSON feed formats should be versioned

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Labs Graveyard :: Personas Plus, defect)

Description

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Personas JSON feed formats should be versioned, so when we update its format, the server can continue to publish data in the legacy format until enough clients have been updated to use the new format.

Versioning could be done by putting the feed into a subdirectory whose name is the version number or by inserting the version number into the name of the feed file.

Comment 1

[Toby Elliott [:telliott]]

file is now called index_1.json. I see no reason to make the versioning any more complex, though it's easy enough to do.

Comment 2

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Thinking about this some more, versioning only the feed files will not be sufficient, since JSON data is embedded in the HTML files of the web directory as well.  So we would need to version the directory also.

Comment 3

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Per discussion in person with Toby, we've decided to not address versioning of the HTML files themselves, focusing this bug just on versioning of the JSON feeds, thus reresolving fixed.