Re: [core] Filtering in draft-shelby-core-link-format

[Zach Shelby <[e-mail]>]

Thanks Cullen,

These all sound reasonable to me, I will make a ticket for link-format-02 if there are no objections.

Zach

On Sep 29, 2010, at 5:43 PM, Cullen Jennings wrote:

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> It seems like you should clear up the behavior of devices that do not support filtering receives a request with a filter query. For example what happens when a device that does not do filtering gets 
> 
> GET /.well-known/core?n=LightLux
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> I think the answer should be it ignores it and returns exactly the same things as if it had got 
> 
> GET /.well-known/core
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> Should also deal with what happens with a query with "*" when the device does not support it. This seems a bit harder to specify - I'd almost be tempted to say supporting * is required if you do filtering
> 
> 
> I'm a little concerned with the 
>  " If no Content-type code attribute is present then text/
>   plain is assumed. "
> 
> I think it might be better to say that nothing about the type can be assumed if the attribute is not present. 
> 
> 
> 
> Cullen <in my individual contributor roll>
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> 

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