> On Oct 6, 2016, at 10:43 AM, Jeremy Stanley <fu...@yuggoth.org> wrote: > > On 2016-10-06 10:30:30 -0500 (-0500), Kevin L. Mitchell wrote: > [...] >> Problem with that is that ':' is a valid character within an ISO date, >> though I do like the 'between' prefix. Now, '/' can be used if it's URL >> encoded, but I agree that that is non-ideal. How about a syntax >> something like: >> >> >> ?finished_at=between:ISO_DATE_A@ISO_DATE_B&finished_at=between:ISO_DATE_C@ISO_DATE_D > > I'll admit I'm not up on the intricacies of URL expectations for > APIs, but why not just use a comma? That's not an unusual meaning > for it as punctuation (at least in English), and has the property > that it's not overloading a typical field separator within either > 8601 or HTTP encodings. (Now I've fulfilled my bikeshed quota for > the month.)
We chatted about this at the API WG meeting today. This seems reasonable to us too. ?finished_at=between:ISO_DATE_A,ISO_DATE_B @milanisko I encourage you to propose this change to the filtering guideline! [1] Contributing is easy, same as any other OpenStack project. See #2 under How to Contribute. [2] [1] https://github.com/openstack/api-wg/blob/master/guidelines/pagination_filter_sort.rst#filtering [2] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/API_Working_Group#How_to_Contribute __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
