Bear Bibeault wrote:Well, firstly you can't mean "combobox" (read HtmlHasNoComboBox).
Secondly, you didn't say whether you have the option to modify what's contained in the response, or to create alternative services. What sort of tips are you looking for?
oops. actually combobox is more generic term. Anyways it is a drop down, you can imagine in an html page.
something like
Now, yes, I can modify what is in the response. But thing is that I would want to retain the original behaviour. as pasted in the previous post. Just that when I want to populate the combobox or rather <select> I want the shortened version. Now to be theoretically correct, I cannot modify the URLs i.e. say for example,
URL1 - GET details
and URL2- GET a shortened version.
because resource remains the same. ie. in the above case books.
I don't know, if creating alternative service wud be a good idea, then. I need a mechanism, idea or suggestion so as to get shortened reply for combobox box, else detailed version
may be something like
some samples would be great. I know that I can hack it one way or the other, butT i want to be closer to the standardS