I tried to get a JSON response from the auto-generated OPTIONS method
in my service but it seems only to respond in XML format.
is it correct ? Does it make sense to expect JSON also in the options
and head methods ?
example:
curl -v -H 'Accept: application/json' -XOPTIONS
http://fgaucho.dyndns.org:8080/arena-http/institution
* About to connect() to fgaucho.dyndns.org port 8080 (#0)
* Trying 84.75.167.99... connected
* Connected to fgaucho.dyndns.org (84.75.167.99) port 8080 (#0)
> OPTIONS /arena-http/institution HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.19.6 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8) libcurl/7.19.6 OpenSSL/0.9.7g zlib/1.2.3
> Host: fgaucho.dyndns.org:8080
> Accept: application/json
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< X-Powered-By: Servlet/3.0
< Server: GlassFish v3
< Allow: OPTIONS,POST,GET,HEAD
< Content-Type: application/vnd.sun.wadl+xml
< Content-Length: 1897
< Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:45:05 GMT
<
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><application
xmlns="
http://research.sun.com/wadl/2006/10"><doc
xmlns:jersey="
http://jersey.dev.java.net/" jersey:generatedBy="Jersey:
1.1.4.1 11/24/2009 01:37 AM"/><resources
base="
http://fgaucho.dyndns.org:8080/arena-http/"><resource
path="institution"><method id="update"
name="POST"><request><representation
mediaType="application/xml"/><representation
mediaType="application/json"/></request><response><representation
mediaType="application/xml"/><representation
mediaType="application/json"/></response></method><method
id="selectAllByRole" name="GET"><request><param
xmlns:xs="
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" name="start" style="query"
type="xs:int" default="0"/><param
xmlns:xs="
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" name="max" style="query"
type="xs:int" default="50"/><param
xmlns:xs="
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" name="role" style="query"
type="xs:string"/></request><response><representation
mediaType="application/xml"/><representation mediaType="applica*
Connection #0 to host fgaucho.dyndns.org left intact
* Closing connection #0
tion/json"/></response></method><resource path="count"><method
id="count" name="GET"><response><representation
mediaType="text/plain"/></response></method></resource><resource
path="{acronym}"><param xmlns:xs="
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
name="acronym" style="template" type="xs:string"/><method id="delete"
name="DELETE"><response><representation
mediaType="*/*"/></response></method><method id="create"
name="POST"><response><representation
mediaType="application/xml"/><representation
mediaType="application/json"/></response></method></resource><resource
path="{id}"><param xmlns:xs="
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
name="id" style="template" type="xs:string"/><method id="select"
name="GET"><response><representation
mediaType="application/xml"/><representation
mediaType="application/json"/></response></method></resource></resource></resources></application>
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HEAD returns JSON, but head has no payload anyway.. so it is just to
know the supported content type......
curl -v -H 'Accept: application/json' -XHEAD
http://fgaucho.dyndns.org:8080/arena-http/institution
* About to connect() to fgaucho.dyndns.org port 8080 (#0)
* Trying 84.75.167.99... connected
* Connected to fgaucho.dyndns.org (84.75.167.99) port 8080 (#0)
> HEAD /arena-http/institution HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.19.6 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8) libcurl/7.19.6 OpenSSL/0.9.7g zlib/1.2.3
> Host: fgaucho.dyndns.org:8080
> Accept: application/json
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< X-Powered-By: Servlet/3.0
< Server: GlassFish v3
< Content-Type: application/json
< Content-Length: 0
< Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:48:15 GMT
<
* Connection #0 to host fgaucho.dyndns.org left intact
* Closing connection #0