Currently the only way to request data from the APIs is to send the appropriate data via the "request" parameter. While this gives a lot of control it's also quite cumbersome to create a request. To make this simpler the requests should also support "direct parameters".
Examples
https://host.name/api/json/?m=categories&a=view&e=all&title=textView all categories that match the title "text".If the "m" parameter is set it should set up a Data object and setRequestValues, i....
Typically any input should be trimmed, it makes sense to make this a default action which can be explicitly disabled. Instead of the current approach where it needs to be enabled explicitly.