Ability to access and create link information via SOAP

I would like to acces the link information between issues via the SOAP API.

So there should be a class similar to "RemoteIssue", let's say "RemoteLink" that covers the details of the links (type, source issue, target issue).

A method
public RemoteLink[] getLinks()
should be added to the RemoteIssue-Class, maybe with some convenience methods that do some filtering (like getLinks(LinkType type) that only return certain Links.

Or maybe it could be wrapped, so that the links are followed immediately without the step over the Links
public RemoteIssue[] getIssues (LinkType which);
that returns all linked issues that are linked via the linktype LinkType.

It should also be possible to create Links, either explicitly:
Link l = new Link (RemoteIssue from, RemoteIssue to, LinkType type)

or directly on the RemoteIssue class.

I would really be happy to see a feature like this in one of the next Jira versions.