Rishi Verma created OODT-466:
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Summary: Allow MIME type (HTTP content-type) configurability for
product handlers' generated content
Key: OODT-466
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-466
Project: OODT
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: product server
Affects Versions: 0.3
Reporter: Rishi Verma
Priority: Minor
Fix For: 0.4
Currently, all product handlers specified under [1], or user-defined product
handlers, return content in one of two MIME type formats: the MIME type of a
given product on disk (usually "application/octet-stream") and "text/xml". The
former strategy is the default for all "GET" type handlers, and the latter is
the default for all "LIST" handlers. A developer currently cannot specify the
desired MIME type for either type of handler. This feature is needed if a
transformation of a product occurs, such that the RAW product is not actually
returned, but information about or based upon the product is returned. For
example, the MD5 handler [2] is such a use-case, and would be more usable by
end-users in a browser setting if it returned content in the form of the MIME
type "text/plain". There are many other example use-cases of this.
I propose to allow a developer to configure the MIME type of generated content
for all "GET" handlers, using the following methodology:
1. Allow the developer to optionally specify a MIME type of a given handler in
the OFSN XML configuration file's handler configuration block [3]
2. If the user specifies a MIME type, this MIME type will be fed into the MIME
type specification in [4], and set as the HTTP server's returned content-type
3. If the user specifies a MIME type, but it is invalid, then the default MIME
type of "application/octet-stream" will be used
4. If the user does NOT specify a MIME type for a handler, then the default
behavior of using the MIME type of a given product on disk will be enacted (ie.
the default behavior of all "GET" handlers right now)
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[1]
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/oodt/tags/0.3/product/src/main/java/org/apache/oodt/product/handlers/ofsn/
[2]
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/oodt/tags/0.3/product/src/main/java/org/apache/oodt/product/handlers/ofsn/MD5GetHandler.java
[3]
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/oodt/tags/0.3/product/src/main/conf/ofsn-ps.xml
[4]
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/oodt/tags/0.3/product/src/main/java/org/apache/oodt/product/handlers/ofsn/OFSNFileHandler.java
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