Hi Nina, Tobias, All,
 
  Do you suggest to drop the brackets just from the URL parameters (e.g.
http://something.com/?params[]=... ) or in general for POSTed
parameters. Let me remind that some services such as our filtering
service and the consensus modeling algorithm (under construction)
require arrays of data. I have sent already an email describing how can
we handle arrays of parameters traveling over HTTP as well as their
representation in RDF (and we have already started coding).

Best regards,
Pantelis

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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