Change locators to a restful interface.

[cahrens]

Don't use ; @ and # as separators.

https://edx-wiki.atlassian.net/browse/STUD-602

[cahrens]

@dmitchell Please review.

Am I correct that a version ID can ONLY occur at the beginning of the URL? So the example you put in the Jira record is not actually possible (utc.chem.organic401.fall2013;live@abc1233dd#video4)?

[dmitchell]

We should allow any order and combo of the restful parms (as long as
they're sufficient)

On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Christina Roberts
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@dmitchell https://github.com/dmitchell Please review.

Am I correct that a version ID can ONLY occur at the beginning of the URL?
So the example you put in the Jira record is not actually possible
(utc.chem.organic401.fall2013;live@abc1233dd#video4)?

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[dmitchell]

I know Steve broke this, but it needs to allow /version w/ /branch, but it doesn't have to allow arbitrary order, just optional. So, edx://course.id.stuff(/branch/branch_name)(/version/version_guid)(/block/block_id) (or whatever order you think makes sense). The use case, as I said on Friday, is to say, I've been working on the xyz branch which I believe is at version guid, if not, I may need to reset a bunch of other stuff.

[dmitchell]

Why not consolidate these into '/?version/'? Since the regex will consume all alphanumerics (or alphanumerics plus periods) prior to the /version, there's no risk that foo.bar.version/branch will be grabbed as matching the version regex.

[dmitchell]

Looks good. I'll let you decide about version. 👍