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Re: [apps-discuss] Question about URI template and expansion of an empty list

Francis Galiegue <fgaliegue@gmail.com> Mon, 15 April 2013 22:59 UTC

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From: Francis Galiegue <fgaliegue@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] Question about URI template and expansion of an empty list
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On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Francis Galiegue <fgaliegue@gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
>>
>> Everywhere else in the document refers to a list as (value[, value[, ...]]).
>> So it seems to me "()" is the empty list, while "[]" is not.
>>
>
> Then what would it be? There is no empty list defined at all in the
> RFC examples.
>
> I agree that there should be an errata, defining expansion behaviour
> for all of these corner cases. Right now, only the tests at
> https://github.com/uri-templates/uritemplate-test make any mention of
> it and there seems to be a disagreement on how these should be
> handled.
>

Ping?

My opinion is that this is of fundamental importance if RFC 6570 has
to have any impact over already existing uses of "poorer" forms of
this RFC. Right now, the RFC is unambiguous, and more worryingly, I
see no way out of it, since there is no clear, definite answer to my
initial question.

I have a pretty complete RFC 6570 implementation, but these corner
cases are what prevent me from arguing that "yes, it obeys the RFC",
especially since some advanced tests out there seem to disagree with
my, and others', interpretation of this RFC.

Please share your thoughts,
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Francis Galiegue, fgaliegue@gmail.com
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