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

Francis Galiegue <fgaliegue@gmail.com> Mon, 08 April 2013 16:30 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 Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Erik Wilde <dret@berkeley.edu> wrote:
[...]
>
> i agree that since JSON doesn't have associative arrays, [] as a value has
> to be read as just being an empty array/list.

It does have a "limited" form of it, however: consider a JSON object
where member values are primitives, which can be coerced to strings.

> but i am still wondering about
> francis' "why" question: if we did not have that test case and simply had to
> reason based on the spec test, how would i end up with "X" instead of "X."?
> when i am just reading the text as somebody trying to write code
> implementing it, i read the spec as telling me "X." is what should be the
> result of expansion.
>

That was my thought as well. More generally, the text is very complex
to follow :/ I've had the devil's own job trying to figure it out.

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