Re: Meta-Data documentation

"Alejandro Guerrieri" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mobile.kannel.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Alex,

Have you checked the latest documentation patch I've made?

Please let me know if it's ok and if there's any plans to finally merge the
meta-data branch into the main tree.

Regards,

Alejandro

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Alejandro Guerrieri
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Yep, clear now, thanks!
>
> Here's the revised userguide patch:
>
>
> http://www.magicom-bcn.net/kannel/userguide-meta-data-cleanup-20080922.patch
>
> Please let me know if you want to change anything.
>
> Regards,
>
> Alejandro
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Alexander Malysh <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi Alex,
>>
>> again...
>>
>>
>> .../sendsms?meta-data=URLENCODE(?URLENCODE(<smsc-type1>)?URLENCODE(key1)=URLENCODE(value1)&URLENCODE(key2)=URLENCODE(value2)&...?URLENCODE(<smsc-type2>)?URLENCODE(key1)=URLENCODE(value1))&...
>>
>> and for your example:
>> .../sendsms?meta-data=%3Fsmpp%3Fmydata%3DHello%2B%2526%2BGoodbye
>>
>> Hope that's clear now.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alex
>>
>> Alejandro Guerrieri schrieb:
>>
>>> Ok, got the new docs almost ready, but have a doubt over the encoding for
>>> sendsms.
>>>
>>> What happens if I want to send data with "=", "?" or "&" ? Should I
>>> double-urlencode it?
>>>
>>> For example, if I want to send "mydata=Hello Goodbye"
>>>
>>> Over sendsms, I'd probably get away with this:
>>>
>>> meta-data=%3Fsmpp%3Fmydata=
>>> Hello%20Goodbye
>>>
>>> But, how do I code it if I want to send "mydata=Hello & Goodbye" or
>>> anything carrying one of the delimiters? A single urlencoding won't do the
>>> trick because the "&" inside the key/value pair would look identical to the
>>> one separating the meta-data parameter from the rest.
>>>
>>> Is the format like this then?:
>>>
>>> URLENCODE(?URLENCODE(<smsc-type1>)?
>>>
>>> URLENCODE(key1)=URLENCODE(value1)&URLENCODE(key2)=URLENCODE(value2)&...?URLENCODE(<smsc-type2>)?URLENCODE(key1)=URLENCODE(value1)&...
>>> )
>>>
>>> or in other words:
>>>
>>> URLENCODE( <urlencoded meta-data string> )
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Alejandro
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Stipe Tolj <[email protected] <mailto:
>>> [email protected]>> wrote:
>>>
>>>    Alexander Malysh schrieb:
>>>     > Hi,
>>>     >
>>>     > great thanks!
>>>     >
>>>     > Could you please better describe meta-data format because it
>>>    unclear how
>>>     > to code it, here is the format accepted by meta-data patch:
>>>     >
>>>     > meta-data =
>>>    ?URLENCODE(group-name)?URLENCODE(key1)=URLENCODE(value1)...
>>>     >
>>>     > then if you send it e.g. for MT:
>>>     >
>>>     > .../sendsms?meta-data=URLENCODE(meta-data)
>>>
>>>    great wok Alejandro.
>>>
>>>    Agree'ing with Alex here. The encoding format of the HTTP GET
>>>    'meta-data' value
>>>    has to be clear from the user's guide, especially the usage of the
>>>    '?' question
>>>    marks to separate the SMSC protocol module parts of the whole string.
>>>
>>>    In fact I would generalize like this:
>>>
>>>     data =
>>>    ?<smsc-type1>?key1=value1&key2=value2&...?<smsc-type2>?key1=value1&...
>>>     meta-data = urlencode( data )
>>>
>>>    Stipe
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