[asterisk-app-dev] Standardization of Case for ARI URIs

[Walter Doekes]

On 22/01/14 11:37, Daniel Jenkins wrote:
> Oh go on then, I'll chip in a little more than just +1'ing Paul,
>
> URLs should be case sensitive, I think we've settled on that now

No. I think we've settled on sensitive and lowercase whenever (easily) 
possible. And case sensitive for the parts that matter.

Just because the RFC says that URLs are case sensitive, does not mean 
that the RFC forbids aliases.


> I'd prefer for SIP technology and any technology to be lowercase in the
> url but if that's a crazy amount of work right now, then I'm fine with
> it being Upper, or whatever the technology is set to within Asterisk,

The point is, that if you make the decision to stick with UPPERTECH 
you'll have a hard time switching later.

If we settle for these rules, we are forward compatible with an optional 
lowertech future:

- case sensitive (usually lowercase) everywhere,
- except technology names, which are case insensitive and have an 
uppercase canonical form (for now)

If we then later decide to make lowertech the canonical form -- for 
starters by updating lots of json output everywhere -- newer scripts 
that use lowertech will still work on older ari versions.


Walter