On 5/31/12 10:54 AM, Santiago Pericas-Geertsen wrote:
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> On May 30, 2012, at 2:35 PM, Bill Burke wrote:
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>> I'd like to get rid of or deprecate any getSize()/getLength() methods
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>> * MessageBodyWriter.getSize() should be deprecated and maybe have its language changed so that the value returned here is ignored, or at least, future implementations should always return -1. The reason for this is that the MBW should have full control on whether a Content-Length header is set or not and the JAX-RS runtime should not set this.
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> So, is your suggestion that all MBW's set Content-Length in writeTo?
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Yes, if they can set it, set it.
I fixed a bug a few months ago where our container set the
Content-Length header based on MBW.getSize() and we had gzip encoding
on, so the value Content-Length ended up being wrong.
Bill
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