Re: Call for consensus for the pagination design (ISSUE-42) from Ruben Verborgh on 2015-10-20 (public-hydra@w3.org from October 2015)

From: Ruben Verborgh <ruben.verborgh@ugent.be>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 16:30:01 +0200
To: Dietrich Schulten <ds@escalon.de>
Cc: public-hydra@w3.org
Message-Id: <3EEA8901-716F-4D6C-BE78-B9CC81D716EC@ugent.be>

> One question: I take it we are not prescribing a particular URL for the
> next/previous links. I.e. "/an-issue/comments?page=2" is really just an
> example, we are treating the URL as an opaque link and we do not assume
> a predefined UriTemplate with a 'page' variable here, right?

Exactly. Otherwise, the nextPage predicate would be unnecessary.
It's much better to be explicit about it than to rely on a convention.
Hypermedia FTW :-)

Best,

Ruben

Received on Tuesday, 20 October 2015 14:30:33 UTC