Separation of concerns: ABNF for URL components instead of whole URLs

    • Type: Improvement
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • Priority: Major
    • V4.02
    • Affects Version/s: V4.01_OS
    • Component/s: ABNF
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      We have published ABNF rules for OData request URLs

      • odataUri
      • odataRelativeUri
      • resourcePath
      • queryOptions

      which are much complicated by the fact that they produce percent-encoded URLs. Because of ODATA-1583, much of these rules must be duplicated for the context rule, which (being a URL fragment) does not use percent-encoding.

      It would be much easier if we only had ABNF rules for the components of a URL:

      • path segment
      • search parameter name
      • search parameter value
      • fragment

      and then assemble a URL from these components, with the necessary percent-encoding.

      Consider writing an alternative set of ABNF rules with this approach.

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            heiko.theissen
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