Hi all, While working on my little side-project (which actually puts together all the APIs for me for the first time) I noticed that currently the browse API has it’s shortcomings when it comes to handling arrays.
For example, the fully qualified address: MAIN.hurz_STRUCT_ARRAY[2].hurz_DATE Is returned as: MAIN.hurz_STRUCT_ARRAY.hurz_DATE Omitting the array portion. Now I could think of multiple ways to handle this: 1. We return one item with the full dimensions: MAIN.hurz_STRUCT_ARRAY[1…3].hurz_DATE 2. We return one item per array item: MAIN.hurz_STRUCT_ARRAY MAIN.hurz_STRUCT_ARRAY[1].hurz_DATE MAIN.hurz_STRUCT_ARRAY[2].hurz_DATE MAIN.hurz_STRUCT_ARRAY[3].hurz_DATE I would assume option 2 makes integration into other systems a LOT simpler, but extend the size of the response dramatically. Considering that the browse functionality would only be used occasionally, I would lean more towards option 2 … mainly because this way users of the API don’t have to post-process the responses. Hereby they can do less errors or misinterpret things. What do you think? If I don’t hear any feedback, I’ll start working on implementing option 2 this Friday. Chris
