On Feb 17, 2010, at 3:25 PM, Dário Abdulrehman wrote:
> I would like to provide a resource that expects an associative array, for example { abc -> 1 , def -> 2} as its input:
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> resource?gene=abc&id=1&gene=def&id=2...etc
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> The above example obviously won't work since the parameters are not interpreted by the resource in the specified order.
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resource?abc=1&def=2 perhaps ?
If you need additional qualifiers you could use matrix parameters and path segments like:
resource/genes;abc=1&def=2/...
Marc.
> 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 ?
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> Thanks.