I posted this question to the wrong list, where it might not be noticed or
addressed, so I'm re-posting it here; please excuse the duplication.
I have a ServerResource that can produce three variants in response to a GET:
application/json, application/xml, and text/plain. I want the JSON variant to
be preferred over the others, so that in the absence of a specific request (via
the "Accept" header) for another variant, the JSON representation and
"application/json" Content-Type will always be returned.
I'm having trouble achieving this in Restlet 2.0.0. Unless the client
explicitly passes "Accept: application/json", the Variant presented to the
get(Variant) method is always application/xml. This happens when the "Accept"
list includes "*/*" and also when no "Accept" header is sent at all.
I've experimented with using @Get annotations with variants specified as
parameters to the annotation (@Get('json'), @Get('xml'), @Get('txt')), as well
as with get(Variant), but the result is the same: the xml variant is always
preferred.
I've overridden getPreferredVariant() to indicate that application/json is
preferred, but it makes no difference (nothing ever causes that method to be
invoked anyway).
How can I make application/json be the default while still returning
application/xml if that's explicitly requested by the client?
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