Re: Extensions to REST-API

Ralf Schlatterbeck <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.bug-tracking.roundup.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 11:47:00AM +0100, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 11:13:49AM +0100, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote:
> > - The ability to look up keys of items in the database, e.g., say I want
> >   to find the status with the name 'closed'. Now I'd have to perform a
> >   search with something like:
> >   .../data/status?name=closed
> ...
> >   IMO this should be extended to allow key attributes directly in the
> >   URL, e.g. .../data/status/closed
> 
> Hmm, this is ambiguous if the class happens to have keys that are
> numeric. In that case it's not possible to specify a key as the check
> would have to determine somehow if a key or an ID was specified.
> 
> How about specifying key- or key= or name= in the URL, e.g.
> 
> .../data/status/name=closed

I've now implemented this as well as the short-form

.../data/status/closed

(the latter works only if you're sure the values of the key property are
never numeric).

Ralf
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