Re: Rest interface: how to match empty fields

On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 08:49:49AM -0400, John P. Rouillard wrote:
> >You can put "-1" for the ID.
> 
> Sorry I should have said I tried that and it didn't work (but I agree
> it should). This is the result with the version I installed from the
> tip yesterday.

Ah. I'm checking the incoming thing with isdigit(). This returns False
for '-1'. Hmpf.

> It does work in the html interface. Is -1 is special cased in the html
> interface? Are we filtering too much in the rest interface and just
> need to pass the parameter value down to the lower level rather than
> validating at the rest level.
See above, we need to match negative numbers, too.

I've just pushed a fix.

Ralf
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