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committedDec 27, 2016
Remove "method", URI input with "hrefVars"
In the most recent draft, "method" simply controlled whether link input was placed in the URI (for a value of "get") or in the request body (for a valued of "post"). While correlating with HTML, this was both confusing due to "get" and "post" not necessarily indicating the HTTP methods of the same name, and limiting in that users/clients could not submit data through both the URI and the request body at the same time. This introduces "hrefVars" which provides a schema for user input matching the "href" URI Template variables. It removes "method" and makes "schema" and "encType" unambiguously apply to the request body in all cases. Clients should choose when to use the request body submission based on the rules of the protocol given by the URI scheme and the semantics indicated by the link relation. Additionally, the complex and apparently rarely if ever used preprocessing rules have been removed, and both the resulting and pre-existing limitations have been documented. They will be the subject of work for future drafts. The meta-schemas have been updated accordingly, and the LDO schema has been brought over from the web site repo and updated. Improper use of "$ref" has been fixed with "allOf".
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‎hyper-schema.json

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"properties": {
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"href": {
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"description": "a URI template, as defined by RFC 6570, with the addition of the $, ( and ) characters for pre-processing",
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"type": "string"
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"type": "string",
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"format": "uritemplate"
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},
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"hrefSchema": {
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"description": "a schema for validating user input to the URI template, where the input is in the form of a JSON object with property names matching variable names in \"href\"",
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"allOf": [ {"$ref": "#"} ]
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},
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"rel": {
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"description": "relation to the target resource of the link",
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"description": "media type (as defined by RFC 2046) describing the link target",
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"type": "string"
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},
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"method": {
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"description": "specifies that the client can construct a templated query (\"get\") or non-idempotent request (\"post\") to a resource.",
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"type": "string"
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},
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"encType": {
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"description": "The media type in which to submit data along with the request",
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"type": "string",
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"base": {
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"description": "URI Template resolved as for the 'href' keyword in the Link Description Object. The resulting URI Reference is resolved against the current URI base and sets the new URI base for URI references within the instance.",
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"type": "string"
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"type": "string",
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"format": "uritemplate"
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},
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"links": {
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"type": "array",

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