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Re: Support for comma delimited identifiers in the API?

 

Looks reasonable to me.



On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 4:18 AM, Saptarshi Purkayastha <sunbiz@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Spring calls these Matrix Variables and is very easy to support using
> Spring MVC.
>
> http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/spring-framework-reference/html/mvc.htm
>
> I like the idea.
>
> ---
> Regards,
> Saptarshi PURKAYASTHA
>
> On 11 December 2013 05:49, Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Hi there.
>>
>>  I have been working with another REST API recently and one of the
>> features is the support for comma delimited lists as part of a API request.
>> From this example from the docs..
>>
>> curl "http://apps.dhis2.org/dev/api/completeDataSetRegistrations?dataSet=pBOMPrpg1QX&dataSet=BfMAe6Itzgt&startDate=2013-01-01&endDate=2013-01-31&orgUnit=YuQRtpLP10I&orgUnit=vWbkYPRmKyS&children=true"; -H "Accept:application/xml" -u admin:district -v
>>
>>
>> It would be useful to support this request as well..
>>
>>
>> curl "http://apps.dhis2.org/dev/api/completeDataSetRegistrations?dataSet=pBOMPrpg1QX&dataSet=BfMAe6Itzgt&startDate=2013-01-01&endDate=2013-01-31&orgUnit=YuQRtpLP10I,vWbkYPRmKyS&children=true"; -H "Accept:application/xml" -u admin:district -v
>>
>> In some cases, we have many dozens or hundreds of orgunit UIDs in the
>> requests, and it might be just a bit simpler to have these delimited.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jason
>>
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