nextcloud / nextcloud/server

Status app endpoints should use etags

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1. to develop enhancement feature: status performance 🚀
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Description

Right now they do not user that. Which leads to a lot of extra parsing on the client side as the status codes don't often change.

Should probably not be to hard and a backport would make sense I think.

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Research direction

Start by locating the Status app endpoints and inspecting how their responses are generated and consumed. Confirm the current status response behavior, then verify that unchanged responses can use ETags to avoid unnecessary client-side parsing and that the endpoint behavior remains correct.

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Assessment

Tech stack
php
Domain
api, backend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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