[aerogear-dev] Client Paging Spec: Question on the ''pagingLocation" configuration

[Matthias Wessendorf]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Kris Borchers <kris at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 23, 2013, at 5:23 AM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> reading the [spec]:
>> ```
>> pagingLocation: String, indicate whether paging information is sent as
>> query parameters (default), or on the request header.
>> ```
>> 1)
>> I think we need one more config setting, to say under what specific
>> header the server is expecting the "query information".
>>
>> Like:
>> httpRequest.addHeader("My-Awful-Query", someValue);
>> // where the "My-Awful-Query" is replaced by the actual header key
>
> I haven't gotten this far but sounds like it would be an issue. What about, dare I say, another provider? The reason I suggest this is what if they want each param in a different header? I have honestly never seen information like this sent as headers so it's all strange to me.

Actually.... let's simply skip the header.... and just go with query......

IF ... some bizzare server requires that _AND_ it we are asked to
support taht, I am willing to put the support of that in.... but not
now - to be honest



>
>>
>> 2)
>> Name suggestions:
>> -queryHeaderIdentifier
>> -queryHeaderName
>> -queryHeader
>>
>> 3)
>> Perhaps a minor thing... but I think I don't like the 'pagingLocation'
>> name... if you just read that name, it is NOT (for me) clear
>> that this drives if the query strings is sent as a)header value or
>> b)appended as http query.
>
> What about something like pagingTransport or parameterTransport or pagingVehicle or something like that?
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> -Matthias
>>
>> [spec] https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear.org/blob/client_paging_spec/docs/specs/abstract_aerogear-client-paging.markdown
>>
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