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

[Kris Borchers]

On Jan 23, 2013, at 7:42 AM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org> wrote:

> 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

+1
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> 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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