Re: [Specifications] IriTemplate should have a way to describe variable as UUID etc.

I'm not sure what you're asking actually.

Wrt the user case, I think that we lack a way to determine what is the data type of IriTemplate's variables. For example, you could get a template to filter a collection by selecting `/events` from a single year

``` json
{
  "@type": "IriTemplate",
  "template": "/api/events{?year}",
  "mapping": [
    {
      "@type": "IriTemplateMapping",
      "variable": "year",
      "property": "??"
    }
  ]
}
```

There is no sensible term to put as `hydra:property` because the year doesn't necessarily have to be a property of an `Event`. In such case how does the client know that the `year` variable should represent a year. And display the form control accordingly using some date picker etc.

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Received on Sunday, 5 November 2017 18:07:45 UTC