Thanks for the replies guys. I definitely don't need to parse it as XML, I'm using XMLUnit in my integration testing to compare the responses (my service returns XML entities). Also, our QA tell prefers to compare XML. So I wasn't pointing it out as a shortcoming by any means, just raising the discussion.
----- Original Message ---- From: Stephan Koops <stephan.ko...@web.de> To: discuss@restlet.tigris.org Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 7:51:45 AM Subject: Re: Response for a 405 can't be parsed by SAX Hi Rhett, >>> SAX can't parse it because it's HTML, not XML. (<br> alone is valid >>> HTML.) You should be able to determine whether it is HTML or XML in >>> your client by examining the content type header. Is restlet not >>> setting that header correctly? >>> >>> If you want to provide XML-formatted error responses, I believe >>> you'll >>> have to implement them yourself. >>> >> But it is a problem, if Restlet would return <br/> instead od <br> ? >> Than it is also correct XML (and XHTML?) >> > I wouldn't have a problem with that. At the same time, though, I > don't see why you'd need to parse it as XML. The message is basically > just translating from the error code into English. Since the error > code is already part of the response, doesn't it make more sense to > skip parsing the body if there's an error and the service you're > talking to doesn't define special error bodies? > > After all, if the representation being requested were JSON (or PNG, or > PDF, etc.), you'd get this same response body back with the error (by > default). It's not Restlet's job to provide error bodies that are > parseable as the same content type as a success would be. > > Rhett You are right. But XML parser will than have no problem with the content, also if it is not intended to be used by them. And it's very easy to implement. But we could leave it as it is. best regards Stephan ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=2361955 ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=2362178
