Marc Hadley wrote:
> On Feb 27, 2008, at 8:59 PM, Bill Burke wrote:
>
>> I don't understand why this method exists:
>>
>> ResponseBuilder.variants(List<Variant> variants);
>>
>> The Response has to choose what its Variant is doesn't it? I mean,
>> the response MUST have a chosen content-type (for example).
>>
>> I thought variants were really for request processing, not the response.
>>
> That method is used by the implementation of Response.notAcceptable.
> IIRC it is used to set the contents of the Vary header from the supplied
> list.
>
I'm still confused on what ResponseBuilder.variants() is supposed to do.
I looked into the Vary header and its return value. The value of the
header should be what accept headers should be used to qualify a
representational type.
i.e.
Vary: Accept, Accept-Language
I can't find any reference to actual types, languages that are available
in the response. From what I've read on Vary, it is really used for
caching semantics and nothing really to do with 300 or 406 response codes.
For response codes 300 (Multiple Choices) and 406 ("Not acceptable"),
W3C says that the entity body returned *may* be a link to various
representations, but the entity body is not specified by the specification.
Can we remove ResponseBuilder.variants and notAcceptable(List<Variant>)
or define exactly what the HTTP Response message should look like please?
or point me to someplace that defines what this method is supposed to do.
Thanks,
Bill
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