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[jsr339-experts] Re: getAcceptableMediaTypes() should return empty list

From: Bill Burke <bburke_at_redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 09 May 2013 02:45:18 -0400

On 5/8/2013 6:10 PM, Jan Algermissen wrote:
>
> On 08.05.2013, at 23:54, Bill Burke <bburke_at_redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm looking at:
>> com.sun.ts.tests.jaxrs.api.client.webtarget.JAXRSClient.requestNoArgTest();
>>
>> It seems that it expects ClientRequestContext.getAcceptableMediaTypes() to return "*/*" by default if there is no Accept header. Not sure I agree with this. The Javadoc says it returns the *requested* media types, i.e., what you specified in an Accept header. If there is no accept header,
>
> " A request without any Accept header field implies that the user agent
> will accept any media type in response." .... aka */*
>
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-22#section-5.3.2
>

Correct, so getAcceptableMediaTypes() should return an empty list as no
specific media type was requested.


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