On 6 Jun 2007, at 10:46, Jim Alateras wrote:
I am not so sure of this.. in particular using /
2003-03-03/2005-05-50 as it implies an hierarchy where there is
something at /2003-03-03. If you go for this approach, use "," to
separate the two dates as they are tied together in the range. (or
";", but mr. "RESTful web services" recommend ";" as separation
when the order doesn't matter, and "," when they do
do you have a reference for this.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/RESTful-Web-Services-Leonard-Richardson/dp/
0596529260/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/026-3362080-3114036?
ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1181124251&sr=8-1
I don't remember which page, but I can check that up at home.
Recommended reading, really good :-)
There's even some example code using Restlet.
matter. The ISO-8601 standard for a date range is to use a / as
separation, so with that justification using / might be OK! :-) )
so use commas for range expression and semi-colons for a matching
against a set of values.
registrationDate=fromDate,toDate
make=holden;toyota;ford
Mmm.. this looks good. And if no commas, then it would have to match
exactly, right? (at least ignoring the date)
it does become a little long winded when it comes to supporting a
'> and <' expression on some property types.
Yeah, easy to spend lots of time on features nobody would use :-)
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Stian Soiland, myGrid team
School of Computer Science
The University of Manchester
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~ssoiland/
