I have a system that does conneg and returns different bodies for SELECT statements, we don't support UPDATE but if we did I suspect that we would also return different bodies in that case.
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Andy Seaborne <a...@apache.org> wrote: > On 03/12/12 12:44, Simon Gábor wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> According to the SPARQL Update protocol recommendation: >> "The response body of a successful update request is implementation >> defined. Implementations *may* use HTTP content negotiation to provide >> both >> human-readable and machine-processable information about the completed >> update request." >> >> How can i specify accept header in the SPARQL Update request? I cannot >> find >> a way in UpdateProcessor (UpdateProcessRemote) or in UpdateRequest. > > > Simon, > > There currently isn't a way to do that and also the .execute() operation > does not return anything. Errors appear as exceptions driven from the HTTP > response code. > > What had you in mind? > > I don't know of any systems currently that return different entity bodies > based on conneg. Are there any? > > The reason in the spec for "MAY" is that there is no standard format for a > reply. RDFa, RDF, JSON [1] (why have an RDF processor when you send a > string?) all make sense in different scenarios. > > Andy > > [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nottingham-http-problem-01 -- I like: Like Like - The likeliest place on the web Identity: https://www.identify.nu/user.php?cla...@xenei.com LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/claudewarren
