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

Francis Galiegue <fgaliegue@gmail.com> Wed, 17 April 2013 14:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] Question about URI template and expansion of an empty list
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On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Joe Gregorio <joe@bitworking.org> wrote:
[...]
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/dret/uritemplate-test/blob/master/spec-examples-by-section.json
>> (line 234) says it's "X", but i am really interested in the "why"
>> explanation as well. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6570#section-3.2.5 says
>> that
>
> The answer is in the text you quote:
>
> "for each defined variable in the variable-list, append '.' to the
> result string and then perform variable expansion"
>
> The set of variables in the variable list is the empty set, so no '.'
> is appended.
>

Is it really the case? I don't see an empty list as an undefined variable.

Or it would mean that the first thing which needs to be done is expand
variable values (scalars, lists, associative arrays) before "grouping"
them.


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