Re: client side content negotiation

[Story Henry]

Thanks, that was very helpful.




Thanks again,

Henry

My feeling is that the Restlet documentations for client side applications needs to be enlarged. It is really short compared to the documentation for server side, and it is not always obvious exactly how to do things. PS. The code I am writing and that is using Restlet is available in http://sommer.dev.java.net/

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On 18 Oct 2007, at 14:11, Thierry Boileau wrote:

Hello Henry,

this kind of properties is not set on the client (or instances of
"Client" class), but on the request sent by the client.

the following instruction set the preference for media type
"application/rdf+xml" with the default quality (1 actually):
request.getClientInfo().getAcceptedMediaTypes().add(new
Preference<MediaType>(MediaType.APPLICATION_RDF_XML));



best regards,
Thierry Boileau

You can also use this constructor: Preference(T metadata, float quality) [1] [1] see http://www.restlet.org/documentation/1.0/api/org/restlet/ data/Preference.html

Sorry to ask a basic question here. I could not find a simple answer
in the doc.

I would like to specify that my client prefers certain mime types
over others. So I would like to set the
"Accept" header. With the java.net framework I would just do this:

        URLConnection conn = idurl.openConnection();
        conn.addRequestProperty("Accept", "application/rdf+xml, text/
html; q=0.2");

how do I do this in Restlets?

It would be nice to also be able to specify some default consumers of
the different representations...

Henry

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