eiffelwebframework/hal

A lean hypermedia type for RESTful APIs in Eiffel

hal's Issues

how to use it

hi..i downloaded your code..but i can't find any dll or something..so how can i use this hal in my rest project..

Is it true that an json property can be both an array or object based on the value?

Hi,
I'm building a client that is build on the Eiffel HAL library.
Let's say I got this call:
GET/order/1
returning:

{
  "order_id": 1,
  "items": [
    { 
      "product_id": 1, 
      "amount": 1, 
    },
    { 
      "product_id": 2, 
      "amount": 1, 
    }
   ]
}

But when there is only one object in the items collection, then it shows as:

{
  "order_id": 1,
  "items": 
    { 
      "product_id": 1, 
      "amount": 1, 
    }
}

Is that correct? Should it not be consistent?
Is this because it uses the so called "smart_serialization"? Can we change it to always return an array when it finds a collection?

Thanks!!