From 878ce2f206581a7e2b0f43c8d8b846f0f8441095 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Haines <mark.haines@matrix.org>
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 14:32:11 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Allow the filter JSON to be passed inline in the /sync
 request

---
 api/client-server/sync.yaml | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/api/client-server/sync.yaml b/api/client-server/sync.yaml
index 4b399d07..7ce04c3f 100644
--- a/api/client-server/sync.yaml
+++ b/api/client-server/sync.yaml
@@ -32,7 +32,9 @@ paths:
           name: filter
           type: string
           description: |-
-            The ID of a filter created using the filter API.
+            The ID of a filter created using the filter API or a filter JSON
+            object. The server will detect whether it is an ID or a JSON object
+            by whether the first character is a ``"{"`` open brace.
           x-example: "66696p746572"
         - in: query
           name: since