[Catalyst] Re: REST-like url question

[Aristotle Pagaltzis]

* Bill Moseley <moseley at hank.org> [2011-05-18 18:30]:
> And these seem wrong because the query parameter is about the
> user not the session.

Why do you care?

> That is, seems like any query parameters should be limiting on
> the session (e.g. session_type).
>
> GET /user/1234/sessions?user_type=attendee
> GET /user/1234/sessions?user_type=presenter
>
> Other options would be:
>
> GET /user/1234/sessions_attending
> GET /user/1234/sessions_presenting
>
> What would you use?

You are presenting a collection in all cases, and the list is the
same in all cases. You are just filtering it differently.

Use a query parameter.


* John Beppu <john.beppu at gmail.com> [2011-05-22 20:55]:
> Could you pull this off?
>
> GET /user/1234/sessions
> GET /user/1234/sessions/attending
> GET /user/1234/sessions/presenting
> GET /user/1234/sessions/attending+presenting
>
> This is similar to how del.icio.us handles tags.

Attending + presenting = all. The first and last of these URIs
mean the same thing.

Regards,
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