detail=concise is not a media type and looking at the grammar in the RFC it 
wouldn’t be valid.

I think the grammar would allow for "application/json; detail=concise". See the 
last line in the definition of the "media-range" nonterminal in the grammar 
(copied below for convenience):

       Accept         = "Accept" ":"
                        #( media-range [ accept-params ] )


       media-range    = ( "*/*"
                        | ( type "/" "*" )
                        | ( type "/" subtype )
                        ) *( ";" parameter )
       accept-params  = ";" "q" "=" qvalue *( accept-extension )
       accept-extension = ";" token [ "=" ( token | quoted-string ) ]

The grammar does not define the "parameter" nonterminal but there is an example 
in the same section that seems to suggest what it could look like:

       Accept: text/*, text/html, text/html;level=1, */*

Shaunak

On Nov 26, 2014, at 2:03 PM, Everett Toews 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

On Nov 20, 2014, at 4:06 PM, Eoghan Glynn 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

How about allowing the caller to specify what level of detail
they require via the Accept header?

▶ GET /<prefix>/<resource_name>
 Accept: application/json; detail=concise

"The Accept request-header field can be used to specify certain media types 
which are acceptable for the response.” [1]

detail=concise is not a media type and looking at the grammar in the RFC it 
wouldn’t be valid. It’s not appropriate for the Accept header.

Everett

[1] http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.1

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