On 02/06/2013 01:30 PM, Brad Jorsch wrote:
>> -- Would fetch JSON from
>> -- http://wikidata.org/api/query/?param1=foo¶m2=bar
>> -- if no local handler is defined and the base URL is in a whitelist
>> jsonObject = JSONRequest("http://wikidata.org/api/query/";,
>> { param1="foo", param2="bar" } )
>>
>> No manual encoding, and URL encoding can be completely skipped if the
>> prefix happens to match a registered local handler. An optional third
>> parameter can pass in a table to specify the request method and other
>> options.
>
> Having a method with a very generic and suggestive name like
> "JSONRequest" that only works for one long magic value of the first
> parameter seems like a bad design to me.
If a whitelist is enforced, then giving this URL a symbolic name looks
like a solvable problem. Alternatively, each configured API end point
could be a generic object with a request method:
jsonData = JSONAPI.wikidata.request({ param1="foo", param2="bar" })
> Also note it's not actually taking JSON as input, it's taking a Lua table.
Right. Can you describe why you would want to pass JSON into a method
that requests JSON data from an API?
Gabriel
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