On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 8:46 PM, Jeroen De Dauw <jeroendedauw(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hey,
Conal, thanks for explaining. The items are indeed not linked. Indeed, the
current format hides the fact that they are items altogether. Perhaps this
is going a step too far, and it is better to take an approach similar to
that of Hay: still have a dedicated wikibase-item data type for which the
value includes the id, but also the label. What are your thoughts on using
this approach [0]? (Everyone is welcome to comment on this.) As you can see,
it makes the format significantly more verbose and is not quite as trivial
to use when you don't care about the links or ids. It's still a lot simpler
than dealing with the canonical Wikibase item format, and perhaps strikes a
better balance than what I created initially.
[0]
https://gist.github.com/JeroenDeDauw/fc17f9fdd2e4567a17ff
And if the data serialization is JSON, why not
use JSON-LD which is
all the rage these days?
http://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld/
Thanks for the suggestion. I'm not really familiar with JSON-LD and quickly
read through the examples there. While this is certainly interesting, I
wonder what the actual benefits are, going on the assumption that most
developers are unfamiliar with this format. It does add complexity, so I'm
quite hesitant to use this in the main format. That said, this might be a
good candidate for an additional response format. (And adding additional
formats to the API in a clean way ought to be quite easy, see
https://github.com/JeroenDeDauw/QueryrAPI/issues/39)
Cheers
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Jeroen De Dauw -
http://www.bn2vs.com
Software craftsmanship advocate
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