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Re: [Jersey] Response status forced to 204 when body empty

From: Marc Hadley <Marc.Hadley_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 08:41:09 -0700

I've confirmed this behavior and agree that if you specify a status
code, we shouldn't force it to something else. Would you mind creating
an issue to track this problem in issue tracker:

https://jersey.dev.java.net/issues/

Sorry for the slow reply, the team is attending JavaOne this week,
normal service will be resumed next week :-).

Thanks,
Marc.

On May 9, 2008, at 8:18 AM, Bruno Luiz Pereira da Silva wrote:

> It is indeed a valid response, but I want to be able to decide which
> status I'm going to return. Being able to decide the returned status
> gives me more flexibility, so I'd definitely like to have this option.
>
> And thinking about the API, there is Response.ok() and there is
> Response.noContent(). I think the implementation should use the
> status corresponding to the method I used. Not doing this is counter
> intuitive in my opinion. Don't you agree with that?
>
> Regards,
>
> Bruno
>
> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:04 AM, Tatu Saloranta
> <cowtowncoder_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Bruno Luiz Pereira da Silva <blpsilva_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi guys, I have started using Jersey recently, but I
> > have a reasonable
> > experience with RESTFul web services.
> >
> > I have a doubt regarding the response status. I'm
> > trying to return an HTTP
> > 200 when the operation goes OK on the server, but
> > when the response body is
> > empty the status is always set to 204 (No Content).
> >
> > I tried using
> > Response.status(Response.Status.OK).build(),
> > Response..ok().status(Response.Status.OK).build()
> > and several other
> > variations of this, trying to force the status to
> > 200.
> >
> > If I use Response.ok(object).build() the response
> > status is set to 200.
> > Can't I return 200 with an empty response body?
>
> But isn't 204 (EMPTY_CONTENT) sort of "right" response
> to give? It is a success code, after all (not a
> failure), and indicates that there is no content to
> return (as opposed to a failure to produce content or
> so).
>
> -+ Tatu +-
>
>
>
>
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Marc Hadley <marc.hadley at sun.com>
CTO Office, Sun Microsystems.