Re: RFC: Improving the rack parameter normalization

Mateo Murphy
Sat, 08 Aug 2009 15:45:49 -0000

As for doing a cleanup in the first place, unexpected results would
imply that there are bugs

On 8-Aug-09, at 8:08 AM, andy wrote:

>  even seemingly well-formed cases can
> yield unexpected results, like the situations I''ve already talked
> about where a nonuniform set of subforms might, with rack''s
current
> behavior for embedded "[]", end up mixing attributes from
different
> subforms into each others'' records.


If this is the case, then I a gree that a refactoring is in order...

> So I know rack is a separate offering from rails, but it seems the
> rack parameter parser was largely adopted from rails, and the
> connection is pretty tight. If a general clean-up of the rack
> parameter parser is worth doing, would that likely be driven by this
> community?

Considering rack seems to have its own fairly active community and
mailing list, I think it would be best to approach them first. Have
you tried the rack-devel list?