Add JSON for /tags

[johnmuhl]

Could a JSON representation be added for /tags?

[DeanMarkTaylor (Dean Taylor)]

Requesting with the following HTTP header returns JSON:
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest

You can try it for yourself with CURL:

curl "https://meta.discourse.org/tags"  -H "X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest"

Although supporting the “.json” extension would make it the same as many other endpoints.

[eviltrout (Robin Ward)]

@DeanMarkTaylor

Although supporting the “.json” extension would make it the same as many other endpoints.

Tags can now have periods in them so that’s unfortunately not going to happen.

We lose a little discoverability but on the other hand only developers really want the JSON feeds and they can figure it out easily!

[DeanMarkTaylor (Dean Taylor)]

@eviltrout

Tags can now have periods in them so that’s unfortunately not going to happen.

Ahh, got ya - that does make it awkward.

Thanks for clarifying the reasoning.

Could you confirm that adding the “X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest” header is the correct (best) way to force JSON request?

It doesn’t seem quite specific enough - it feels like we should be requesting JSON rather than making adding the fake X-Requested-With header.

[eviltrout (Robin Ward)]

Actually we support the Accept header, so this approach is preferred as our API needn’t be consumed by XHR:

curl "https://meta.discourse.org/tags" -H "Accept: application/json"