From: Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr>
To: Dianne Skoll <dianne@skoll.ca>
Cc: galene@lists.galene.org
Subject: [Galene] Re: Galene API frozen?
Date: Thu, 02 May 2024 22:33:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a5l8vts2.wl-jch@irif.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <171468106125.1473.12323438012415538261@gauss.local>
>>> rather than returning plain-text, one-per-line, wouldn't it make
>>> more sense to return a JSON array?
>> No objection if people feel strongly that way, but what's the
>> advantage?
> Consistency.
I think there's a stronger argument.
Galene group names may contain any character including newlines. So
I need to either forbid newlines in Galene group names, or define
a quoting mechanism. And JSON comes bundled with its own quoting
mechanism...
I'll think it over.
> The usual way to handle this case is to provide a paged API
...and run into all sorts of issues with atomicity.
-- Juliusz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-02 20:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-02 17:32 [Galene] Galene API frozen? Juliusz Chroboczek
2024-05-02 19:22 ` [Galene] " Dianne Skoll
[not found] ` <171467774184.1473.5473206404325247014@gauss.local>
2024-05-02 20:07 ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2024-05-02 20:17 ` Dianne Skoll
[not found] ` <171468106125.1473.12323438012415538261@gauss.local>
2024-05-02 20:33 ` Juliusz Chroboczek [this message]
2024-05-02 20:53 ` Dianne Skoll
2024-05-03 18:26 ` Juliusz Chroboczek
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