Folks, what is the recommended way of letting the caller choose the format
of the response? I have a method that can return plain text or XML, so how
does the caller choose the one they want?
I could have a format= parameter on the method call (Rackspace do that),
or is it better to inspect the
Accept header is the norm
On 20 January 2014 15:03, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote:
Folks, what is the recommended way of letting the caller choose the format
of the response? I have a method that can return plain text or XML, so how
does the caller choose the one they want?
I could have a
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Subject: Web API response formatting
Folks, what is the recommended way of letting the caller choose the format of
the response? I have a method that can return plain text or XML, so how does
the caller
Chaps, after some doodling around I see I can get the Accept values
straight out of the Request in the controller's code. That does now seem to
be the logical way of choosing the response format.
More confusion though ... I tried to write a controller method that
returned either plain text or
Please ignore previous message as I hit Send instead of Save (bloody Gmail
interface!). Here's the correct message:
Chaps, after some doodling around I see I can get the Accept values
straight out of the Request in the controller's code. That does now seem to
be the logical way of choosing the
Greg, let the web API deal with the formatting. Your controller should
ideally just return an object which will be formatted according to the
request.
(apologies for brevity, I am playing mini golf with my son)
Try it in Fiddler and you can see how changing the request will change the
output. If
From my limited reading on this I think you will struggle to remove the
xmlns, the rationale being that without a namespace the xml is not valid.
While technically true, it is also annoying.
Personally I have a strong preference for JSON these days and use it
whenever I can... simple, ubiquitous
