[OTDev] API change - drop [] from query strings - what do you think?
Nina Jeliazkova jeliazkova.nina at gmail.comWed Nov 10 10:32:34 CET 2010
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On 10 November 2010 11:27, Egon Willighagen <egon.willighagen at gmail.com>wrote: > Hi all, > > from a user point of perspective, I am in favor of dropping the []'s... > > On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Nina Jeliazkova > <jeliazkova.nina at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Let me remind that some services such as our filtering > >> service and the consensus modeling algorithm (under construction) > >> require arrays of data. > > > > There is no problem to pass arrays by parameters which name doesn't > include > > any brackets. Parsing and interpreting the content of parameter content > is > > not restricted in any way by its name. > > Are there actually paramaters like 'feature_uris' and 'params' which > do not take an array? Actually if I remember the initial reasoning right, brackets were intended to denote one can have multiple values as in ?feature_uris=blabla1&feature_uris[]=blabla2&... rather than array values (they are not ordered so I would not call it 'array' ) . So it is more to do with the specification how many parameters of particular kind are meaningful for the service. > Intuitively, the 's' at the end of the parameter > names gives me enough hinting that the value is an array, and a good > place to formalize this would be the ontology. > Indeed. Nina > Egon > > -- > Dr E.L. Willighagen > Postdoctoral Research Associate > University of Cambridge > Homepage: http://egonw.github.com/ > LinkedIn: http://se.linkedin.com/in/egonw > Blog: http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/ > PubList: http://www.citeulike.org/user/egonw/tag/papers > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > Development at opentox.org > http://www.opentox.org/mailman/listinfo/development >
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