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

[Kris Borchers]

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.

> 
> 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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