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Re: [Jersey] http and xml on the same path

From: Sergey Beryozkin <sergey.beryozkin_at_iona.com>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 14:25:37 +0100

Hi


> I am reluctant to put logic directly in Jersey that does not obey the Accept processing rules.
>
> Perhaps the cleanest solution is to write a filter that checks the User-Agent header and modifies the Accept header accordingly
> (by simply prefixing "text/html," to the Accept header).
>

+1

> Can this easily be done using a servlet filter?
>
> But... we should probably add a filter concept to Jersey...to make it really easy to modify the request or response.

what about JAX-RS :-) ?

Cheers, Sergey

>
> Paul.
>
> Jo Størset wrote:
>>
>> Den 15. mai. 2008 kl. 14.13 skrev Jo Størset:
>>
>>> I wan't to serve text/html by default to browsers, but also be able to deliver application/xml on the same url,
>>> is there any way to achieve this with jersey?
>>>
>>> It seems that browser clients (at least firefox/safari) prefer xml over html by default in the accept header, so I need some way
>>> of tweaking jerseys matching algorithm (?)
>>>
>>> Would it be possible to get jersey to choose @ProduceMime("text/html") over @ProduceMime("application/xml") if the client says
>>> it accepts html (even if it's less weighted than xml)?
>>>
>>> The http spec says that I SHOULD respect the weight, by I don't see any better ways to handle this case of wanting browsers to
>>> get html by default. Does anyone know of a better solution?
>>
>>
>> I should probably add that I use a template processor to generate the html, so I can't do the conneg in my own code. I need
>> seperate methods for xml and html, where the former return my jaxb domain object and the latter a Viewable.
>>
>> Jo
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