From: Doug Kearns <djkea2@...>
Date: 2002-05-09T16:27:54+09:00
Subject: Re: cgi params api

On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 02:39:43PM +0900, Patrick May wrote:
> One thing that I don't like is the way cgi forces you to treat every
> param as if there were multiples, when most of the time you're dealing
> with single params.
 
Although I'm only a very casual user of cgi.rb ... me too.

<snip>

> Here's an idea I had:
> 
> 
> # query string =>  "multiple=something&key=value&multiple=somethingelse"
> cgi["multiple"]                  # <= "something"
> cgi["multiple"].multiple         # <= ["something", "somethingelse"]
> 
> cgi["key"]                       # <= "value"
> cgi["key"].multiple              # <= ["value"]
 
<snip>
 
> What do you think? Would this be a nicer way of handling cgi params?

It's not really grabbing me, although it seems reasonable. Hopefully
others will have something more constructive to offer :-)

<snip>
 
This reminds me of the time Sun tried to deprecate getParameter()
leaving only getParameterNames(). There was such a ruckus they were
forced to keep it.

Regards,
Doug