Jira issue created: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SYNCOPE-300

What a magic number ;-)

Best regards.
Jan


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sergey Beryozkin [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Mittwoch, 30. Januar 2013 11:50
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Feed Item Query Language
> 
> Hi
> On 30/01/13 10:43, Francesco Chicchiriccò wrote:
> > On 30/01/2013 11:27, Jan Bernhardt wrote:
> >> Hi Syncopers,
> >>
> >> I'm currently working on updating our CXF migration website [1].
> >> While I was starting documentation some month ago, I discovered a
> >> nice feature CXF offers, to make more standard like search queries,
> >> that can easily be applied to different persistent layers. It is
> >> called "Feed Item Query Language"(FIQL). Take a look at [2] for more
> >> detailed information.
> >>
> >> We are currently using our own custom *Cond classes to POST search
> >> requests. According to RESTful best practices it would be nicer, to
> >> send these kind of search queries via GET operation. With FIQL we
> >> could easily achieve this behavior.
> >>
> >> So my proposal would be to create a new JIRA ticket (for 1.3.0 ?) to
> >> switch our current implementation to support and use FIQL search
> >> queries in the feature, and also update our Roadmap accordingly.
> >>
> >> WDYT?
> >
> > +1 - if there is a standard (AFAIU is [3]) I don't see any reason to
> > stuck with our custom way.
> > A mandatory statement for this change is, of course, to not reduce the
> > space of possible conditions that can be currently searched for.
> >
> 
> IMHO using FIQL can definitely be interesting: it can expand the space
> indeed, in a way which is not always easy to do with simple queries, so
> +1 to getting FIQL supported;
> That said, in addition, I'd also consider offering a simple/typical name/value
> query interface to let users who are most comfortable with using plain
> name/value pairs to use them as usual - but also offer a more enhanced
> FIQL-powered interface - I guess this flexibility can be supported without too
> much extra complexity, with a single Search service only...
> 
> Thanks, Sergey
> 
> > I also agree with targeting this change to 1.3.0.
> >
> > Regards.
> >
> >> [1]
> >>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SYNCOPE/REST+API+upgrade#
> >> RESTAPIupgrade-ConfigurationService
> >>
> >> [2] http://cxf.apache.org/docs/jax-rs-search.html
> > [3] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nottingham-atompub-fiql-00
> >

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