Hi Sergey,
Certainly something we can look at in 2.1. I think this is a result of using wildcards in @Produces, something that I believe should be generally avoided. We can certainly look at this algorithm again and try to improve it.
-- Santiago
On Apr 22, 2013, at 12:49 PM, Sergey Beryozkin <sberyozkin_at_talend.com> wrote:
> Hi
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> Section 3.8 concludes with
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> 9. If M contains ‘*/*’ or ‘application/*’, set Mselected = ‘application/octet-stream’, finish.
> 10. Generate a NotAcceptableException (406 status) and no entity.
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> I'm seeing an early test failing where we have
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> Accept: text/*
> Produces: text/*
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> CXF produces: 200 + application/octet-stream, test expects 406.
> It is not a big problem for us to make sure that if a wildcard response types does not meet requirements from 9, them it is 406 (as per 10.), however, I wonder, should we always do 9. whenever a response type contains "*", not only if it is a wildcard or application/* ?
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> It is kind of strange to get 406 returned when a match has been successful.
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> I can open a minor improvement request for 2.1 if you agree
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> Sergey
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