On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Vanjikumaran Sivajothy <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > On Sunday, March 30, 2014, Chanaka Fernando <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Isuru, >> >> If that is the case, then that should be documented somewhere such that >> users can understand that properly. Otherwise, most of the people getting >> confused about these two properties. >> >> Thanks, >> Chanaka >> > > +1 Chanaka, > > yes there are serveral other properties out there with out proper > documentation in detail and comparation. > > When ever we encounter such a situation, we have to write down it and pass > through the doc team. Else this kind a issue will be there. +1. @Chanaka, Can you please do necessary modifications to make it clear. Thanks. > > > >> >> >> On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Isuru Udana <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Chanaka, >> >> >> On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Chanaka Fernando <[email protected]>wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> As per the ESB documentation, both messageType and ContentType properties >> are used to select the messageFormatter. See the description section of the >> properties below. >> >> messageType >> >> Message formatter is selected based on this property. This property >> should have the content type, such as text/xml, application/xml, or >> application/json. >> >> >> ContentType >> >> This property will be in effect only if the messageType property is >> set. If the messageType is set, the value of Content-Type HTTP header of >> the outgoing request will be chosen based on this property. Note that, this >> will be dependent on the Message Formatter implementation. >> >> >> According to the above description, we are using the ContentType property >> to set the Content-Type http header of the outgoing message. But this can >> be achieved only through the messageType property itself. For example, In >> the JSON documentation, we are using the messageType property to change the >> Content-Type of the message from application/xml to application/json. >> >> >> We could find a lot of samples where we use messageType property only for >> this Content-Type conversion. With this capability of the messageType >> property, do we really need the ContentType property anymore? >> >> >> Yes. as given in the description, messageType is used to select the >> MessageFormatter. Most of the message formatters set the Content-Type to >> it's default Content-Type. But some message formatters has given an extra >> flexibility to set a different Content-Type using the Content-Type property >> which is totally depend on the MessageFormatter implementation. >> >> > > -- > Sent from Gmail Mobile > -- *Isuru Udana* Senior * Software Engineer* WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.com email: [email protected] cell: +94 77 3791887 blog: http://mytecheye.blogspot.com/ twitter: http://twitter.com/isudana
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