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This is a recurring feature request, although it usually seems to come from people who want a particular piece of functionality, but don't want to ask for an actual REST API for it.

Don't forget to put a huge health warning on the docs around this, to note that any passed-through commands may change even if the REST API itself is stable.

Also I guess access to this would be limited to super-privileged user accounts?

John Spray wrote:

This is a recurring feature request, although it usually seems to come from people who want a particular piece of functionality, but don't want to ask for an actual REST API for it.

Indeed, it would be helpful to get more specific feedback on what's actually missing that would require this kind of "low-level" API, but IIRC this is primarily intended to support existing customers with legacy applications that use this feature.

Don't forget to put a huge health warning on the docs around this, to note that any passed-through commands may change even if the REST API itself is stable.

Good point, indeed.

Also I guess access to this would be limited to super-privileged user accounts?

It probably should - maybe with a special security scope in the roles management?

There has been ongoing discussion if we really want to have such a thing in an API. It's basically against the RESTful concept and there are other downsides (mostly around security, auth, ...). One idea was instead of fully deprecating the current restful module, to just remove the other API endpoints and only keep the pass-through MON command part.