Re: URI Templates - optional variables?

On 10/17/07, James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nice. it would be cool if you could include a couple of example
> expansions into the output.

I'm not sure if that would be helpful or confusing.
I will have to think about it some more.

I did add some example URI Templates to the page so you
can see how it works w/o making up your own template.

  -joe

>
> Also, I have the new scheme implemented in Java:
>
>  http://www.snellspace.com/public/uritemplates.zip
>
> - James
>
> Joe Gregorio wrote:
> > On 10/16/07, Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com> wrote:
> >> I want templates to be easy for a computer to read and easy for
> >> a computer to generate from that reading a fully-descriptive
> >> page of information in the user's favorite language.  For example,
> >> define a web service that inputs a template and outputs the
> >> readable description according to the Accept-Language received.
> >>
> >>      http://example.com/explain_template?{URItemplate}
> >>
> >> I bet Joe could write one of those in an hour -- it would save
> >> him the time of regenerating all those email examples. ;-)
> >
> > Wow, that took exactly one hour:
> >
> >    http://bitworking.org/projects/URI-Templates/
> >
> > Sorry, no language translations yet. Here is an example
> > of the service in action:
> >
> >   http://tinyurl.com/yomkdy
> >
> >    -joe
> >
>


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Joe Gregorio        http://bitworking.org