Re: Moving forward with hydra:filter (ISSUE-45)

On 12/20/2015 04:49 PM, Markus Lanthaler wrote:
>>> >>  - assuming we need "transformations" or also just simply the equivalent
> of
>>> >>the SELECT part of a SQL/SPARQL query how do we possibly model that
>> >
>> >Not issues for Hydra Core I think.
>> >(But in any case, it's not a showstopper for the hydra:filter property.)
> Not sure I agree about that.. at least being able to select which fields to
> return has been requested quite a few times by now.
>
>

I agree that this is a very common use case for APIs but I see it as a 
general
thing, not only in the case of filtering.
So I think we should come up with a solution that can be layered on top of a
normal GET call _and_ a case where a hydra:filter is involved.

Very common in current rest API is a query param like 
"fields=created,modified,...".
Something like this should be easy to model with IRI templates.

Alternatively or additionally it might make sense to let the client 
specify a shape.

Received on Sunday, 20 December 2015 17:44:43 UTC