Re: query language

hello lászló.

On 2014-09-09, 16:18, László Lajos Jánszky wrote:
> What do you think? Should an URL Query language be part of the Hydra standard?

it would be good to be able to describe the ways in which URIs can be 
constructed when following a link. this does not imply anything like a 
query language, as it would simply refine the description of the uniform 
interface of HTTP.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wilde-link-desc-01 might be an 
interesting thing to look at. the idea is to augment the existing 
standard of URI template (RFC 6570) in a way that allows services to 
describe/annotate links.

the specification is incomplete and the current serialization is 
XML-based. and i would suggest to loosely couple things and keep this 
separate, instead of trying to cover everything in hydra itself.

but i think that the general direction is a very useful one, because it 
would allow services to provide richer descriptions of the ways in which 
applications can interact with the resources that they provide.

cheers,

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