[Registry-dev] ISSUE - Query string and versions

[Deepal Jayasinghe]

> Hi team:
>
> So as I'm redoing the APP stuff, I'm trying to fix the places that 
> ended up kind of unclean in the URL design.  I've run into one that 
> will actually impact the rest of the Registry URLs as well, so I 
> wanted to run it past you all.  Here's the short version:
>
> The current design for version URLs uses the query string:
>
> http://registry/r1?v2
>
> I'd like us to be using the query string for (omg!) query parameters, 
> and this design makes it challenging to consistently parse the URL for 
> both query execution and versioning - also it makes versioning queries 
> impossible (because there's a fight for who uses the query string).  
> I'd like to change versioning to match our standard metadata syntax:
>
> http://registry/r1;version=2
+1 , this approach is much cleaner than the current one.

Thank you!
Deepal