On Monday, July 1, 2013 10:47:16 PM UTC+8, Ray (a.k.a. Iceberg) wrote: > > On Monday, July 1, 2013 7:30:51 PM UTC+8, Ray (a.k.a. Iceberg) wrote: >> >> Hi folks, >> >> I just noticed that, the auto patterns generated by dal.py's >> parse_as_rest() are using hyphen to replace underline. This way if I have: >> >> db.define_table("my_table", >> Field("my_field"), >> ) >> >> it will show up in auto patterns as a url like >> "http://.../my-table/my-field". >> >> However this brings some inconvenience when I am writing other pieces of >> program to access this patterns. >> >> So the question is, why dal.py's parse_as_rest() intentionally change all >> underlines into hyphens? I don't think SEO consideration matters in an api. >> So why? >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> Regards, >> Ray >> > > Actually I am working on a generic rest api. I end up with several > unnecessary lines of "...replace('-', '_')", in order to counteract the > undesirable "underline to hyphen" behavior, came from dal.py's > parse_as_rest() auto pattern. Yet I am still curious to know, why design a > "underline to hyphen" behavior in parse_as_rest() auto pattern? > > Regards, > Ray >
I got bitten by the same problem, again. So, in short, my table looks like this: db.define_table("my_table", Field("my_field"), ) Why the auto patterns generated by parse_as_rest() ends up as something like this (notice the hyphen)? "/my*-*table/id/{my_table.id}", "/my*-*table/id/{my_table.id}/:field", and I prefer this (notice the underline): "/my*_*table/id/{my_table.id}", "/my*_*table/id/{my_table.id}/:field", Any thoughts? -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.