Can you use a request body in XML or JSON or something? For instance:
<genes>
<gene id = 1>abc</gene>
<gene id = 2>def</gene>
...
</gene>
Chris
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Dário Abdulrehman
<dario.rehman_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to provide a resource that expects an associative array, for
> example { abc -> 1 , def -> 2} as its input:
>
> resource?gene=abc&id=1&gene=def&id=2...etc
>
> The above example obviously won't work since the parameters are not
> interpreted by the resource in the specified order.
>
> How can I achieve this without resorting to hand-crafted solutions, like
> providing each pair as a single value, separated by a designated token, ex:
> gene_id="abc_at_1"&gene_id="def_at_2"...etc ?
>
> Thanks.
>