The current spec does not provide a way to get metadata for a resource. Specifically, it would be a good idea to allow one to get the list of all the attributes for a particular resource (or resource type). This is important for supporting extensibility.

This issue is related to https://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/CAMP-10 and https://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/CAMP-14

This issue was raised by Anish Karmarkar and was drupal issue # 1001