[jira] [Created] (AMBARI-1415) Improve partial response syntax to be more concise

["John Speidel (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

John Speidel created AMBARI-1415:
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             Summary: Improve partial response syntax to be more concise
                 Key: AMBARI-1415
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMBARI-1415
             Project: Ambari
          Issue Type: Sub-task
            Reporter: John Speidel
            Assignee: John Speidel
             Fix For: 1.3.0


The current partial response syntax can be very verbose in some cases.  This can be greatly improved by allowing properties in the same category to be nested within that category, therefore removing the need to specify the whole category path for each property.  This is similar to the syntax that is used in the "IN" query operator.

For example consider the following partial response string:
?fields=category1/category2/foo,category1/category2/bar,category1/category2/foobar

If we wanted to return all of the properties for the category category1/category2, we could simply specify the category in the partial response: ?fields=category1/category2

But, if this category contained a large number of properties and we only wanted to include some of them, they would have to be specified individually as shown above.

An example of a more concise format for the above partial response string:
?fields=category1/category2(foo,bar,foobar)



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