values vs name/id : Help

The shortcut:

"/music/artist/active_start": [{}]

The explanation:

There's a bit of a trick to this. MQL divides the world into "values"
and "objects". If you look at the expected_type of a property (try the query

{ "query0":
   { "query":
      { "id": "",
        "type": "/type/property",
        "expected_type": null
      }
   }
}

You will find out if a property expects a value (one of /type/id, /type/key, /type/text, /type/rawstring, /type/int, /type/float, /type/boolean and /type/uri) or an object (anything else)

Then you can ask

[{ "name": null, "id": null, "type": [], "optional": true }]

for the objects and

[{ "value": null, "type": null, "optional": true }]

for the values. (the optional: true ensures the query doesn't fail if the property is missing)

[{}] asks MQL to automatically inspect the expected_type for you and insert one or other of the clauses you see above, depending on which is appropriate. It's what we use internally 90% of the time.

More information on how to query schema objects, their properties, user interaction with those objects, and the links between them can be found in the Schema Introspection Cookbook.

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