Representing options (Radio buttons/drop-down list)

[johnlim]

Hi Mike,

How would you represent radio options/drop-down menu items within collection-json? My idea is to use links in items like this:

{ "collection" :
  {
    "version" : "1.0",
    "href" : "http://example.org/friends/profile/jdoe",

    "links" : [
      {"rel" : "feed", "href" : "http://example.org/friends/jdoe/rss"}
    ],

    "items" : [
      {
        "href" : "http://example.org/friends/profile/edit/jdoe",
        "data" : [
          {"name" : "Field", "value" : "Occupation", "prompt" : "Occupation"},
        ],
        "links" : [
          {"rel" : "options", "href" : "http://examples.org/field/options/occupations", "prompt" : "Available Options in occupations", "render": "link},
        ]
      },
........

By doing this, the client requires making GET calls to the links, which increases transaction overheads. How would you go about representing it? :)

[mamund]

i found this pending merge: mamund/collection-json#6

can't recall why it never got merged in.

does this help you out?

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On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 4:35 AM, John Lim [email protected] wrote:

Hi Mike,

How would you represent radio options/drop-down menu items within
collection-json? My idea is to use links in items like this:

{ "collection" :
{
"version" : "1.0",
"href" : "http://example.org/friends/profile/jdoe",

"links" : [
  {"rel" : "feed", "href" : "http://example.org/friends/jdoe/rss"}
],

"items" : [
  {
    "href" : "http://example.org/friends/profile/edit/jdoe",
    "data" : [
      {"name" : "Field", "value" : "Occupation", "prompt" : "Occupation"},
    ],
    "links" : [
      {"rel" : "options", "href" : "http://examples.org/field/options/occupations", "prompt" : "Available Options in occupations", "render": "link},
    ]
  },

........

By doing this, the client requires making GET calls to the links, which
increases transaction overheads. How would you go about representing it? :)

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