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rename Mime
to MediaType
#251
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I'm willing to attempt this if it hasn't been assigned yet and would be accepted. |
The PR for this will probably be quite small but will only be acceptable once we've gathered all the other semver-major changes, so it may sit for a while and possibly have conflicts. |
@Fishrock123 Do you want me to go ahead and create it but let it sit there, or just wait until other semver-major changes are implemented? |
And, by the way, if you're looking for contributors for some of these other semver-major issues, I'm open to doing any that are delegated to me. I'm looking to help out however I can. |
You can open a PR if you'd like, just be aware of those things. |
@yoshuawuyts Checking back to confirm this: while |
then why not |
A new set of HTTP specs has just been published, and in the newly stabilized RFC 9110: HTTP Semantics, 8.3: Content-Type defines the
There's probably a wider question how we want to work with the new specs that's worth its own conversation. Overall they seem like a much needed improvement over the older specs in terms of clarity and consistency. I'm kind of inclined to say that we should start following the terminology used by them, but use aliases to link back to current, commonly-used terminology. In this case that would mean naming the type |
Tracking issue: #274
I saw akka refers to this as
MediaType
and quite liked it."MIME" is pretty nondescript if you don't know what it is I'm advance. "Media type" seems a bit clearer and in turn more natural to talk about:
For search purposes we should probably still mention "MIME" in the docs somewhere, but the type itself being called
MediaType
would be nice I think.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: