Re: URI and IRI Templating (What did I get myself into?)

Am 26.12.2006 um 23:00 schrieb Mark Nottingham:
> On 2006/12/27, at 3:26 AM, Joe Gregorio wrote:
>>   "First let's dispel the notion that you can come up with
>>   the perfect URI-Template to URI translation mechanism
>>   that will always produce a valid URI regardless of the scheme. "
>
> I don't want perfect; I'd settle for "not horribly broken."

You seem to settle in down there quite nicely - all the best.

>> On the other hand, allowing the template designer a choice in how  
>> the value
>> is encoded seems like an interesting idea. I worry, as usual, that
>> the results will be way too complex to be adopted, but let's turn it
>> into a concrete proposal and see how far it goes.
>
> Your proposal puts the encoding information into the variable name.  
> That's one option, but I'm reluctant to encourage putting this kind  
> of thing in there, as it encourages URI Templates to become URI  
> Schemas, and they'll quickly become unreadable. Encoding is by no  
> means the last thing we'll want to associate with a particular  
> variable.

Would it make sense to seperate the uri template specification from  
any (python API) implementation? In the posts I get the feeling that  
people treat them as the very same. Is that necessary?

I personally lack context-of-use of these template to make any  
judgement on that.

Cheers,

Stefan

Received on Tuesday, 26 December 2006 22:54:30 UTC