Provide CIF outputs in the JSON "out" field about mpds-api HOT 4 CLOSED

To be released in version 0.0.5

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Then technically this is not a CIF anymore. You then need json parser and so on. I think about adding aux info to the response headers, but not sure if it is a common practice.

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Yes, I see what you mean, it's not ideal to force the user to have a JSON parser if they don't have one. My concern is that without communicating the number of pages and the current page the interface is close to unusable. I would have to keep upping the requested page until I didn't get a response anymore or something like that.

Perhaps there could be metadata in the CIF in comments, e.g.:

# response_count = 44640
# response_npages = 4464
# response_page = 2
...

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Absolutely true, agreed.

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