How to handle arrays of parameters with REST API endpoints?

[raman-shaliamekh]

Based on some work we are experimenting with in developing REST API endpoints I have the following question.

How can we handle arrays of parameters where (depending on how we implement it) might look something like this:

e.g.
/employees=Todd
/employees=Todd,Bob
/employees[]=Todd&employees[]=Bob

Where in the above example, employees can be a string, or an "array" (fancy string that represents an array) that will translate to a WHERE employee IN ['Todd', 'Bob']