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

[Summers Pittman]

On 01/23/2013 06:23 AM, Matthias Wessendorf 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".
I thought this was the point of the ParameterProvider.
> Like:
> httpRequest.addHeader("My-Awful-Query", someValue);
> // where the "My-Awful-Query" is replaced by the actual header key
>
> 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.
Yeah that is annoying, while I was implementing stuff I had to keep 
checking what that meant.  We could make it a boolean 
"sendPagingAsHeader" and if it is false sent them as a query.  (Not a 
great idea but it may be a better direction)
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> -Matthias
>
> [spec] https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear.org/blob/client_paging_spec/docs/specs/abstract_aerogear-client-paging.markdown
>