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Anybody up for terminal frontends
Would anyone like to program some sort of terminal app which would be connected to a SE site?
You could query with it questions, and get notified when someone answers. Likewise one could browse ...
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API Help Suggestion: include range [1, 100] on pagesize
I see that range is being used to indicate valid range on most numeric parameters
e.g.
32-bit integer, range [0, 2,147,483,647]
32-bit integer, range [1, 2,147,483,647]
The valid range for ...
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API Help Suggestion: /users/{id}/badges id parameter clarification
On /users/{id}/badges, the description of id parameter diverges from the inferred standard.
e.g.
a semicolon delimited list of user ids
vs
A single primary key identifier or a vectorized, ...
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API Suggestion: Abstract paged results to enable cleaner libraries
It would make great sense for paged results array property to have a common name, items perhaps.
For those writing in languages that support 'generic' constructs, this would simplify the code ...
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help page suggestion: /questions/tagged/{tags} - tags param clarification
Method removed
it is not clear what a 'list' of tags looks like.
does this parameter follow the semicolon seperated list format of the id param?
is it a comma separated list?
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api.stackoverflow/0.8/questions now gives answers as well by default?
Up till now the /questions page hasn't given the answers to the question, you'd have to get the question ID and then use that to get the answers to the question. This means the size of the JSON file ...
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help page suggestion: indication of integral values vs real numbers
number is an very ambiguous term.
It would be helpful if there was an indication of values that can return as non-integral.
In a javascript context this is not an issue, but most devs, myself ...
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help page suggestion: json results for help pages
it would simplify machine reading if we could apply type=jsontext to api-help pages, including the index.
update
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help page suggestion: position required parameters at top
in the case of id, it is now placed at the bottom of the page.
It makes sense to place required parameters at the top of the page with a slight separation, perhaps an <hr> or an icon.
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help page suggestion: exemplars - working example urls for each route
It would take a lot of the guess work out of sussing the api if each route's page provided a small handful of working urls.
This would also serve to provide an authoritative result exemplar.
