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Re: URI Escaping and Unescaping

From: Bill de hOra <bill_at_dehora.net>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:14:17 +0100

Dhanji R. Prasanna wrote:
>
>
> On 6/22/07, *Bill de hOra* <bill_at_dehora.net <mailto:bill_at_dehora.net>> wrote:
>
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> Indeed. For me to add
>
> @UriTemplate("hello%20world")
>
> means I need to know the escape sequence as I type. The doing this
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> @UriTemplate("hello world")
>
>
> We're not talking about changing the URI template to auto-code. Just the
> URI parameter that is extracted after the jsr311 algorithm has *already*
> run on the URI and extracted the params.

I'm not understanding the difference (which isn't to say i don't belive
there is one). But the point is that what I type into my editor isn't
what I will send/receive over HTTP. As a user of the API, I have to know
that, or I'm buying into a "tools will save me" position.

cheers
Bill