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

[Matthias Wessendorf]

see earlier discussion: we just use query, hence no need for such a param ;-)

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Summers Pittman <supittma at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
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