Hi Avi, Sorry for the delay. We'll look at this issue tomorrow, this doesn't look right indeed.
Best regards, Jerome -- http://www.restlet.org http://twitter.com/#!/jlouvel -----Message d'origine----- De : Avi Flax [mailto:a...@arc90.com] Envoyé : mardi 14 février 2012 20:17 À : discuss@restlet.tigris.org Objet : Re: Using MetadataService to specify the default media type Ping? On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 12:05, Avi Flax <a...@arc90.com> wrote: > Jerome, > > I’m using 2.0, and I need a way to set the default variant of my > resources. I’m frustrated because I’d think this’d be a common need > and it really should be easier and clearer how to do this. I need to > support requests which don’t include an Accept header, and I need to > be able to set the default variant concisely on a resource-by-resource > basis — not in a centralized Service or Filter. > > With the resource I’m working on now, I first tried to just use a > single annotation: > > @Get(“html|xhtml”) > public Representation getRep(Variant variant) { … } > > I assumed that when a request didn’t include an Accept header, the > conneg algorithm would take into account the order specified and use > html as the default. Unfortunately it does not — for some reason, > xhtml is chosen as the default. > > Unsurprisingly, the same is true if I use two separate methods: > > @Get(“html”) > public Representation getHtml() { … } > > @Get(“xhtml”) > public Representation getXhtml() { … } > > IIRC, in Restlet 1 this was fully supported — the first variant passed > to getVariants().add() was considered the default. I still need this > functionality. > > I don’t know if it’s too late to change this for 2.0 (I’d love to > submit a patch…) but I’d at least like to see this improved for 2.1 — > I think the order specified in the annotation parameter should be > significant, with the first one specified used as the default. > > For now, I’m not even sure how I’m going to make this work in the > resource I’m working on today — I might just do something hacky like > this: > > if (acceptHeader != null && > acceptHeader.contains("application/xhtml+xml") && ! > acceptHeader.contains("text/html")) > representation.setMediaType(MediaType.APPLICATION_XHTML); > > Thanks, > Avi ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=2922447 ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=2925111
