[openspending-dev] API Docs: request for review

Sat Nov 12 17:08:44 UTC 2011

> On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Martin Keegan <martin.keegan at okfn.org> wrote:
>> One omission: the q parameter to /api/2/search has its own internal
>> language and we need to document that a bit better. What does "**"
>> mean, etc?
>
> I'd linked to a few things at the bottom of
> http://testing.openspending.org/help/api-search.html#raw-lucene-queries
> - but you mean that we should inline this? To be honest, I think its a
> bit verbose...

Fine, but do link/mention that from the description of what the "q"
parameter does, as people unaware that we back onto Solr might not
read the next section. (An example of someone like this is a user
trying to debug data.gov.uk/openspending)

Mk