On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Sameera Jayasoma <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Dev,
>
> I've noticed that we haven't enabled the Http content negotiation by
> default in our products. Basically we've set the following parameter to
> false.
>
> <parameter name="httpContentNegotiation">true</parameter>
>
> I would to see why we haven't enabled it by default. When I enable it,
> following use cases works for a data service. I've deployed RESTful data
> service and trying get xml and JSON.
>
> Super tenant mode
> ---------------------------
>
> 1) GET
> https://sam-test.sam.com:9449/services/SpringSampleCustomer.SecureHTTPEndpoint/customer/1
>     Accept: application/xml
>
> 2) GET
> https://sam-test.sam.com:9449/services/SpringSampleCustomer.SecureHTTPEndpoint/customer/1
>     Accept: application/json
>
>
> MT mode
> --------------------------
>
> 3) GET
> https://sam-test.sam.com:9449/services/t/wso2.com/SpringSampleCustomer.SecureHTTPEndpoint/customer/1
>     Accept: application/xml
>
> 4) GET
> https://sam-test.sam.com:9449/services/t/wso2.com/SpringSampleCustomer.SecureHTTPEndpoint/customer/1
>     Accept: application/json
>
> The 4th scenario does not work. Basically there are few problems in REST
> support in MT mode. I have a fix for that and I will address that in a
> different thread.
>
> I found some useful blogs by Keith[1] and Sanjiva[2] on this feature.
>
> Shall we enable it by default, if there are no issues?
>

 I came cross with above parameter few times but didn't find exact reason
why it was set to false. If there is no specific reason I'm +1 to enable
it.

Thanks !


>
>  Thanks,
> sameera.
>
> [1]
> http://www.keith-chapman.org/2008/09/http-content-negotiation-with-apache.html
> [2]
> http://sanjiva.weerawarana.org/2008/10/http-content-negotiation-in-axis2.html
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Hiranya Jayathilaka <[email protected]>
> Date: Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:29 AM
> Subject: Re: [Carbon-dev] ESB does not honor Accept header... [?]
> To: [email protected]
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Miyuru Wanninayaka <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi Prabath,
>>
>> It's true that ESB does not nativity support Accept header and response
>> content type will be same as request content type if not overridden using
>> messageType header in outSequence.
>>
>
> Not just ESB. None of the Axis2 HTTP transports support this properly.
>
>
>>
>> Your workaround is acceptable.
>>
>> However there is few cases which we do not have proper solutions:
>>
>> * Accept header does not contain any contetn type which particular ESB
>> does not have message formatter
>> * Accept header contains multiple content types
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Prabath Siriwardena 
>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> This what I want to - I want to send the request in SOAP and get the
>>> response as JSON..
>>>
>>> So - this is how I used curl for it.. by setting Accept header to
>>> application/json - and I was expecting a JSON response..
>>>
>>> curl -d @request.soap -H "Content-Type: application/soap+xml
>>> action=getQuote" -H "Accept: application/json"
>>> http://localhost:8080/services/test
>>>
>>> But this always returned back a SOAP response - ignoring the Accept
>>> header..
>>>
>>> Do I have to do anything else to get this work..? I also set
>>> httpContentNegotiation to true in axis2.xml but the same result..
>>>
>>> This is the workaround I followed and it worked..
>>>
>>> <inSequence>
>>>                <property name="IN_ACCEPT_HEADER"
>>> expression="$trp:Accept"/>
>>>  </inSequence>
>>>  <outSequence>
>>>                <log level="custom">
>>>                    <property name="IN_ACCEPT_HEADER"
>>> expression="get-property('IN_ACCEPT_HEADER')"/>
>>>                </log>
>>>                <property name="messageType"
>>> expression="get-property('IN_ACCEPT_HEADER')" scope="axis2"/>
>>>                <send/>
>>>   </outSequence>
>>>
>>> What would be the acceptable solution for this...?
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Thanks & Regards,
>>> Prabath
>>>
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>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Thanks,
>> Miyuru
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>
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