Expose Nucleus Navigator via a REST API

[wbjls]

Hi There,

I would like to suggest a feature that could be helpful for users working with Nucleus.

Currently the only way to interface with the Nucleus Navigator file system is via the Python or C++ client libraries and as such there is no REST API exposed.

For our use case we want to allow users to be able to navigate (read only) the USD files and checkpoints that are currently stored in our Nucleus instance from a front-end web app.

Because of this limitation it forces us to lock in our API as a Python-based Farm Kit Extension to be able to provide this functionality which makes it more complicated from a deployment, infrastructure and system design perspective.

It would be great if Nucleus could at least expose a subset of its functionality via REST API endpoints considering it already exposes a web interface.

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Thank you for your consideration!

[Richard3D]

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