Input field that is an enumerated value

[danielgsims]

@kevinswiber - I was wondering what's the best way to go about representing an action with a field that would have a list of accepted values that in HTML could be represented by a select element.

[kevinswiber]

There has been some discussion around this as it relates to radio and checkbox inputs. The select element has similar semantics. My suggestion would be to start by using radio/checkbox.

However, I'm not sure we came to any conclusion on what that syntax should look like. I've certainly used it before, but in a non-standard way (as Siren doesn't currently specify what it should look like).

Reference:

• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/siren-hypermedia/xDqxQ4gMgYk
• Add support for multiple options in action fields. #3

[pdurbin]

I was discussing this in #rest on freenode today: http://irclog.greptilian.com/rest/2015-02-07

Right now our API returns this if you try to create a dataset with "junk" for a subject:

{"status":"ERROR","message":"Error parsing datasetVersion: Value 'junk' does not exist in type 'subject'"}

But I'd love to communicate the possible values for "subject" ("Chemistry", "Engineering", "Physics", and the rest of the controlled vocabulary) ahead of time.