[Developers] help - MQL to query by type and get all types

[John Merrells]

On Mar 18, 2009, at 12:33 PM, Christopher R. Maden wrote:

> John Merrells wrote:
>> But that doesn't work, as 'type' can only appear once. I can't work  
>> out
>> the syntax to express this query :-( Any help much appreciated :-)
>
> JSON imposes the restriction that each key can only appear once.  In
> MQL, the work-around for that is that arbitrary colon-separated  
> prefixes
> are allowed; try this instead:
>
>
> [{
>     "id" : null,
>     "name" : null,
>     "type" : "/music/artist"
>     "all:type" : []
> }]


Ah, thanks. I see it on the 'mql cheatsheet' now. It shows 'inc:', but  
I now understand that any prefix would work.

John

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