IWS - Query Parm Help Needed

Hi Everyone,

I just recently jumped in to the realm of using IWS to provide RESTful services. I am using the program to feed data to a web portal that will show a grid of information in it for whatever customer has logged in.

Initially when loading the grid, it will be shown in date/time format with most recent activity at the top. But, then I want to have the ability to allow the user to perhaps filter the data or click a column heading and sort the data. Full disclosure, I am not the user interface guy on this, just the person providing the data back in a JSON format from IWS.

So, right now this works great:

http://myserver:10010/web/services/TICKETS/xxxxxxxxxx

Where "xxxxxxxxxx" is the customer ID and is set up as a *PATH_PARAM. This would always be a required part of the path.

So a real URL might look like:

http://myserver:10010/web/services/TICKETS/CUSTOMERA

Now I am trying to figure out how to accept in additional parameters in to the request that might be for sorting or filtering the data. I think a real request might look like:

http://myserver:10010/web/services/TICKETS/CUSTOMERA?state=closed&sort=-updated_at

This would retrieve tickets for customer A where the state is closed and sort them with most recent at the top.

So, with all that said, how do I set up the service program to accept this "?state=closed&sort=-updated_at" and how do I configure the IWS service to accept it and pass it in?

I am thinking maybe the sort/filter is another entry parameter but I've not been able to get it to work so I am hoping someone here has already blazed this trail. There still does not seem to be a ton of info out there on IWS and even less with IWS and RESTful services.

Thanks all in advance,
Brian