Suppose I want to just store keys in a bucket without any body, this make sense in scenarios where the key completely identify the entity. Is it possible to use the riak http api without including the content-type header?
Looking at the http specifications, content–type is not mandatory or suggested when the body is empty: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec7.html#sec7.2.1 and it's probably a good argument to say that if the entity message is empty then the content type doesn't really make sense. Personally I think that just the existence of an http entity - body or not body – is sufficient to justify a "type"; it's unfortunate that any other higher type (entity type maybe?) - decoupled from what is defined as content - exist in the spec. Framework like spray are quite strict about this, not setting any content type when the content is empty: https://github.com/spray/spray/blob/master/spray-http/src/main/scala/spray/http/HttpEntity.scala#L74 how to deal with such situation? Adding a fake content because of this data store constraint doesn't seems right. Thanks, Vincenzo. -- If your e-mail inbox is out of control, check out http://sanebox.com/t/mmzve. I love it.
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