Hi Santiago
On 04/06/12 15:38, Santiago Pericas-Geertsen wrote:
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> On May 31, 2012, at 1:46 PM, Bill Burke wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> What if we state that JAX-RS implementations must not update Content-Length after calling writeTo()?
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My only reservation about it is that there could be, in principle,
light-weight, JAX-RS centric containers which do not delegate say to
Tomcat or Jetty etc to set Content-Length.
Cheers, Sergey
> -- Santiago
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