On Apr 15, 2013, at 6:09 AM, Sergey Beryozkin <sberyozkin_at_talend.com> wrote:
> Hi Santiago, all
>
> I'm not sure if it is a problem or not, I was not able to come up with the the case confirming it might be, but I'm typing it here in case someone can spot something,
>
> Basically, if we have 'text/xml vs text/*', then the distance is 1, and if we have 'text/* vs text/*' then the distance is 0 (as per the spec example, S(*/*;q=0.2, text/*;qs=0.9) = text/*;q=0.2;qs=0.9;d=1,
> ).
>
> As I said I was not able to come up with the example where it would make any unexpected difference, IMHO 'text/* vs text/*' should produce a distance 1, but if no one can see any issues with the distance 0 in this case then it works for me too :-)
I don't see an issue. Wildcard comparison is for Accept and @Produces. Conceptually, identical types (even wildcard ones) should result in a distance of 0.
-- Santiago