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Comment by jmuguy | Hacker News Reader

What do other folks here think of how MS handles query params, specifically stuff like filtering?

https://github.com/Microsoft/api-guidelines/blob/master/Guid...

When working with the Graph API for 365 I thought it was really weird how you had to pass some params

   GET https://api.contoso.com/v1.0/products?$filter=name eq 'Milk'

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Aren't things like $filter, $orderBy etc. straight out of the OData standard[1].

[1] https://www.odata.org/

It looks weird when you write it that way, but the ' ' character gets translated into '+' when you encode the URI before making a request. If it was me, I'd prefer to see the '+' encoding than ' ' because it looks strange when it's not a valid URI.

At first look I think using spaces is a bad idea but maybe it’s ok.

yeah seeing spaces is kinda weird IMO

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