Hi Nina, All,

I am totally in favour of this proposal. And I think this has been
discussed once or twice already...

Tobias

On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 18:23 +0200, Nina Jeliazkova wrote: 
> Hello All ,
> 
> I would like to propose to drop square brackets from query parameter names
> throughout OpenTox API , e.g. parameters like feature_uris[] to become
> feature_uris.
> 
> The reasons are
> 
> 1) Some implementations (rightly) URL encode the parameter names in URL
> query string, however, this is not correctly understood by all clients.
> 
> http://localhost:8181/dataset/1?feature_uris%5B%5D=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%3A8181%2Ffeature%2F3
> 
> 2) Not sure what was the original idea behind [] , but they don't really
> impose any control on how many instances of particular parameter should be
> there, so it's more of a syntax headache.
> 
> 3) Finally, parameters like ?feature_uris%5B%5D=..  are not quite readable,
> even if interpreted correctly.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Nina
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