Glossary

Cliquet Protocol
A system of rules that explains the way to interact with the HTTP API endpoints (utilities, synchronization, headers etc.), and how data is organized (JSON responses etc.).
CRUD
Acronym for Create, Read, Update, Delete
endpoint
endpoints
An endpoint handles a particular HTTP verb at a particular URL.
extensible
«Extensible» means that the component behaviour can be overriden via lines of code. It differs from «pluggable».
Firefox Accounts
Account account system run by Mozilla (https://accounts.firefox.com).
HTTP API
Multiple publicly exposed endpoints that accept HTTP requests and respond with the requested data, in the form of JSON.
KISS
«Keep it simple, stupid» is a design priciple which states that most systems work best if they are kept simple rather than made complicated.
pluggable
«Pluggable» means that the component can be replaced via configuration. It differs from «extensible».
resource
A resource is a collection of records. A resource has two URLs, one for the collection and one for individual records.
user id
user identifier
user identifiers

A string that identifies a user. When using the built-in Basic Auth authentication, Cliquet uses cryptography (HMAC) to generate an identification string.

See Pyramid authentication.

object
objects
Also refered as «records», objects are stored by Cliquet resources.
tombstone
tombstones
When a record is deleted in a resource, a tombstone is created to keep track of the deletion when polling for changes. A tombstone only contains the id and last_modified fields, everything else is really deleted.
principal
principals
An entity that can be authenticated. Principals can be individual people, computers, services, or any group of such things.
permission
permissions
An action that can be authorized or denied. read, write, create are permissions.
Semantic Versioning
A standard MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH versioning scheme. See http://semver.org/.
ACE
ACEs
Access Control Entity
An association of a principal, an object and a permission. For instance, (Alexis, article, write).
ACL
ACLs
Access Control List
A list of Access Control Entities (ACE).