Consolidate guidance around examples (3.0.4) #3893
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The three (four in 3.1) ways of specifying parameter or media type examples are confusing. There is a lot of guidance that is repeated, making it harder to see the essentials. Some of that guidance is also contradictory, with most saying that the examples SHOULD match various conditions, but one saying that they MUST. Research shows that SHOULD was repeatedly advocated, and instances of MUST corrected back to SHOULD, except for one final commit where MUST was introduced, and the subsequent commit to revert to SHOULD seems to have simply missed one instance. So this change takes the position that the MUST was an error and weakens it to SHOULD to match the other four or five places where the requirement was specified.
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The four ways of specifying parameter or media type examples are confusing. There is a lot of guidance that is repeated, making it harder to see the essentials. Some of that guidance is also contradictory, with most saying that the examples SHOULD match various conditions, but one saying that they MUST. Research shows that SHOULD was repeatedly advocated, and instances of MUST corrected back to SHOULD, except for one final commit where MUST was introduced, and the subsequent commit to revert to SHOULD seems to have simply missed one instance. So this change takes the position that the MUST was an error and weakens it to SHOULD to match the other four or five places where the requirement was specified.
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Consolidate guidance around examples (modified 3.1.1 port of #3893)
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The four ways of specifying parameter or media type examples are confusing. There is a lot of guidance that is repeated, making it harder to see the essentials. Some of that guidance is also contradictory, with most saying that the examples SHOULD match various conditions, but one saying that they MUST. Research shows that SHOULD was repeatedly advocated, and instances of MUST corrected back to SHOULD, except for one final commit where MUST was introduced, and the subsequent commit to revert to SHOULD seems to have simply missed one instance. So this change takes the position that the MUST was an error and weakens it to SHOULD to match the other four or five places where the requirement was specified.
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The four ways of specifying parameter or media type examples are confusing. There is a lot of guidance that is repeated, making it harder to see the essentials. Some of that guidance is also contradictory, with most saying that the examples SHOULD match various conditions, but one saying that they MUST. Research shows that SHOULD was repeatedly advocated, and instances of MUST corrected back to SHOULD, except for one final commit where MUST was introduced, and the subsequent commit to revert to SHOULD seems to have simply missed one instance. So this change takes the position that the MUST was an error and weakens it to SHOULD to match the other four or five places where the requirement was specified.
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The three (four in 3.1) ways of specifying parameter or media type examples are confusing. There is a lot of guidance that is repeated, making it harder to see the essentials. Some of that guidance is also contradictory, with most saying that the examples SHOULD match various conditions, but one saying that they MUST.
Research shows that SHOULD was repeatedly advocated, and instances of MUST corrected back to SHOULD, except for one final commit where MUST was introduced, and the subsequent commit to revert to SHOULD seems to have simply missed one instance. So this change takes the position that the MUST was an error and weakens it to SHOULD to match the other four or five places where the requirement was specified.