FYI I filed this bug to jQuery over a year ago
http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/3408
jon
Thierry Boileau wrote:
> Hi Andrzej
>
> could you use the "dataType" argument instead of the "beforeSend" one?
>
> $.ajax({type: 'GET',
> url: myUrl,
> success: onAjaxSuccess,
> error: onAjaxError,
> cache: false,
> dataType: "xml");
>
>
> Best regards,
> Thierry Boileau
>
>
>> Thierry,
>>
>> 1) Our JQuery Ajax call:
>>
>> $.ajax({
>> type: 'GET',
>> url: myUrl,
>> success: onAjaxSuccess,
>> error: onAjaxError,
>> cache: false,
>> beforeSend :
>> function(xhr){xhr.setRequestHeader('Accept','application/xml')}
>> });
>>
>> Will generate Accept header of "*/*, application/xml". We want
>> "application/xml".
>>
>> 2) Our Restlet 1.1.5
>>
>> @Override
>> public Restlet createRoot() {
>> // Create a router Restlet.
>> Router router = new Router(getContext());
>>
>> // Attach our routers.
>> router.attach("/test", HelloWorldResource.class);
>> router.attach("/file/status", FileStatusResource.class);
>>
>> return router;
>> }
>>
>>
>> public FileStatusResource(Context context, Request request, Response
>> response) {
>> super(context, request, response);
>>
>> // Read URI query strings.
>> Form form = request.getOriginalRef().getQueryAsForm();
>> if (form != null) {
>> setUser(form.getFirstValue("user", isIgnoreCase()));
>> setOriginalUri(form.getFirstValue("originalUri",
>> isIgnoreCase()));
>> setAction(form.getFirstValue("action", isIgnoreCase()));
>> }
>>
>> // Variants that our resource generates.
>> getVariants().add(new Variant(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON));
>> getVariants().add(new Variant(MediaType.APPLICATION_XML));
>>
>> }
>>
>> @Override
>> public Representation represent(Variant variant) throws ResourceException {
>> Representation representation = null;
>>
>> // Validate request
>> if (StringUtils.isBlank(getUser())) {
>> log.debug("GET FileStatusResource bad user. ");
>> representation = representError(variant, new
>> ErrorMessage());
>>
>> getResponse().setStatus(Status.CLIENT_ERROR_BAD_REQUEST);
>> return representation;
>> }
>>
>> representation = representGet(this,variant);
>> return representation;
>> }
>>
>> public final Representation representGet(CoralReefResource crr, Variant
>> variant)
>> throws ResourceException {
>> Representation representation = null;
>>
>> log.debug("HTTP GET for : " + variant.getMediaType().getName());
>> ...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Thierry Boileau wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hello Andrzej,
>>>
>>> I wonder if the source cause if your issue is out there.
>>> Could you tell us how are built your resources? How do you send the
>>> request using jquery?
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Thierry Boileau
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Our Restlet resource server APPLICATION_JSON and APPLICATION_XML. A
>>>> JQuery
>>>> client, sets the Accept Type to "*/*, application/xml". So the Restlet
>>>> negotiates that APPLICATION_JSON should be returned as expected. However,
>>>> we
>>>> want APPLICATION_XML to be served. The problem is that we are unable to
>>>> remove the "*/*" as the first Accept type in JQuery. JQuery seems to tack
>>>> on
>>>> the "*/*" as an Accept Type to every request we send.
>>>>
>>>> Is there an elegant way in Restlet to filter the "*/*" values, e.g. ALL
>>>> or
>>>> APPLICATION_ALL? We can certainly get the Accept Headers in Restlet and
>>>> re-arrange the Accept list ourselves to "override" the Restlet
>>>> negotiation.
>>>> We are thinking of filtering, after Restlet negotiation, based on the
>>>> User-Agent header for this particular JQuery client, so as not to "break"
>>>> the Restlet behaviour for other clients (which is what we expect.)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>
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