Considering Andrea's feedback on using position rather than layer name:
130 characters
<mnsi>538008302,244060802,538008505</mnsi><mnsi>22,44</mnsi><mnsi/><csvInput/><csvInput/><csvInput>acv,rrp;1,0;0,7;22,1</csvInput>
Or json-lite: 85 chracters
{mnsi:['538008302,244060802,538008505','22,44',],csvInput:[,,'acv,rrp;1,0;0,7;22,1']}
Or json-quote: 95
{'mnsi':['538008302,244060802,538008505','22,44',''],'csvInput':['','','acv,rrp;1,0;0,7;22,1']}
The quoting of " and ' in a URL will make any of these hard to read so I
encourage us to figure out any other approach.
--
Jody Garnett
On Jul 8, 2022 at 11:38:07 AM, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If XML is really not earning its keep switch to json or similar that
> preserves nesting: 110
>
>
> {Layer1:{mnsi:'538008302,244060802,538008505'},Layer2:{mnsi:'22,44'},Layer3:{csvInput:'acv,rrp;1,0;0,7;22,1'}}
>
> Even adding quotes: 122
>
>
> {'Layer1':{'mnsi':'538008302,244060802,538008505'},'Layer2':{'mnsi':'22,44'},'Layer3':{'csvInput':'acv,rrp;1,0;0,7;22,1'}}
>
> Or if you love XML treat it like the maven properties (not able to
> validate but succinct): 152
>
>
> <Layer1><mnsi>538008302,244060802,538008505</mnsi></Layer1><Layer2><mnsi>22,44</mnsi></Layer1><Layer3><csvInput>acv,rrp;1,0;0,7;22,1</csvInput></Layer3>
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
>
> On Jul 8, 2022 at 11:21:15 AM, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The XML most often cited downside is verbosity, and the above is already
>>>> 250 chars. URLs have a practical size limit of 2000 chars
>>>> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/417142/what-is-the-maximum-length-of-a-url-in-different-browsers>,
>>>> adding a few more params in there (or other request parameters) and you'll
>>>> quickly get to the maximum... at which point you can still do the request,
>>>> but it's going to have to switch to a POST request with form-url-encoded
>>>> body.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Right, I guess for complex use cases switch to POST encoding will need
>>> to be done anyway, that say, we could shorten a bit the syntax:
>>> <L n="Layer1"><P n="mmsi">538008302,244060802,538008505</P></L><L
>>> name="Layer3"><Parameter name="mmsi">22,44</P></L><L name="Layer6"><P
>>> name="csvInput">acv,rrp;1,0;0,7;22,1</P></L>
>>>
>>> From 250 to 180.
>>>
>>
>> I though for a moment you were just saving typing in email until you
>> provided a character count.
>>
>> If you reached the level of proposing shortening the tag names to save
>> characters; if that is your challenge it is time to make the POST request.
>> Or accept a different protocol (ogcapi is needed for your use case).
>>
>>
>>
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