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joakim / iota-uri-scheme

IOTA URI Scheme (proposal) – Not set in stone, see open issues:
https://git.io/vpWy0
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Message parameter #1

Closed joakim closed 6 years ago

joakim commented 6 years ago

Besides the optional tag, IOTA also supports adding a message to a transfer.

I left this out the URI scheme proposal simply because the official IOTA wallet app doesn't have a message field. I haven't used many other wallet apps, but if it turns out others do support messages, adding it to the URI scheme should be considered.

However, what if a user clicks on an iota: link with ?message= and their IOTA client doesn't have a message field. Is it OK to silently ignore the provided message?

joakim commented 6 years ago

I'm thinking it's best to require that IOTA clients accept any message param in iota: links and either prefill the message field in its GUI if it has one, or otherwise silently add it to the transfer. Right..?

joakim commented 6 years ago

I added the message param to the spec (e94c034d75d25baf21f2394270a709e56924fd62). As it is an integral part of IOTA, I believe all wallets should be expected to handle messages in iota: links.

How clients should handle this could be explicitly specified in the spec, but I'll leave it for now. I think developers of IOTA clients should be listened to before making a decision on this.