> 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 < everett.to...@rackspace.com > > wrote: > > > > > On Nov 20, 2014, at 4:06 PM, Eoghan Glynn < egl...@redhat.com > 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.
Well it's not a media type for sure, as it's intended to be an "accept-extension". (which is allowed by the spec to be specified in the Accept header, in addition to media types & q-values) Cheers, Eoghan > Everett > > [1] http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.1 > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
