From 3322e1f528f4d607eb0693a4cee2df97400eb215 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2026 23:08:28 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Document the boolean query string argument grammar

Boolean arguments parsed by value_as_boolean() accept on/true/1 and
off/false/0 - state this once in the JSON API docs rather than leaving
each argument to imply its own grammar.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GrHZSypDfMnym1tM5XJAFZ
---
 docs/json_api.rst | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/json_api.rst b/docs/json_api.rst
index 2105d6e0..c31ba756 100644
--- a/docs/json_api.rst
+++ b/docs/json_api.rst
@@ -276,6 +276,10 @@ Here is an example Python function built using `requests <https://requests.readt
 Special JSON arguments
 ----------------------
 
+Boolean query string arguments - such as ``?_labels=`` and
+``?_json_infinity=`` - accept ``on``, ``true`` or ``1`` for true and
+``off``, ``false`` or ``0`` for false.
+
 Every Datasette endpoint that can return JSON also accepts the following
 query string arguments: