I want the query on the server side to specify the Content-Type header for the response. I didn't see how to do that from the link you provided.

This seems to work - is there a better way?

declare function as:json-response-headers()

{

rest:response

<http:response status="404">

<http:header name="Content-Language" value="el"/>

<http:header name="Content-Type" value="application/json; charset=utf-8"/>

</http:response>

</rest:response>

};

declare

%rest:path("/api/abbott-smith/index")

%rest:GET

%rest:produces("application/json")

function as:index()

{

as:json-response-headers(),

array { $as:abbott-smith/*:entry ! @lemma ! string() }

! serialize(., map {'method' : 'json'})

};

Jonathan

[1] https://docs.basex.org/wiki/RESTXQ#Custom_Response

On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 11:29 PM Kristian Kankainen kristian@keeleleek.ee wrote:

Hi Jonathan,

Have you tried setting the media-type or method parameters to application/json instead of only the produces parameter, as explained here [1].

[1] https://docs.basex.org/wiki/REST#Content_Type

Best regards, Kristian Kankainen

On 11. Nov 2021, at 02:32, Jonathan Robie jonathan.robie@gmail.com wrote:

Using RESTXQ in an application for the first time. I expected this function to have the MIME type application/json:

declare %rest:path("/api/abbott-smith/index") %rest:GET %rest:produces("application/json") function as:index() { array { $as:abbott-smith/*:entry ! @lemma ! string() } ! serialize(., map {'method' : 'json'}) };

But both POSTMAN and WADL give me application/xml as the mime type:

<wadl:resource path="/api/abbott-smith/index"> <wadl:method name="GET"> wadl:request/ wadl:response <wadl:representation mediaType="application/xml"/> </wadl:response> </wadl:method> </wadl:resource>

What am I doing wrong?

Jonathan

Works like a charm! Thanks, Kristian and Christian!

Jonathan

On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 1:19 PM Christian Grün christian.gruen@gmail.com wrote:

Hi Jonathan,

As Kristian indicated, it suffices to specify the media-type or method parameter. The content type will be generated by BaseX (see the attached example).

If you want to return a non-standard or custom Content-Type header, you’ll indeed need to construct your own response, either manually or via the web:response-header helper function.

Hope this helps, Christian

declare %rest:path('json') %output:method('json') function page:test() { map { 1: 2 } };

...

curl -i "http://localhost:8984/json"

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2021 18:14:42 GMT Content-Type: application/json;charset=utf-8 Server-Timing: parse;dur=0.05 ms,compile;dur=0.12 ms,evaluate;dur=0.0 ms,serialize;dur=0.0 ms Content-Length: 14 Server: Jetty(9.4.44.v20210927)

{ "1": 2 }

On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 2:11 PM Jonathan Robie jonathan.robie@gmail.com wrote:

...

I want the query on the server side to specify the Content-Type header

for the response. I didn't see how to do that from the link you provided.

...

This seems to work - is there a better way?

declare function as:json-response-headers()

{

rest:response

<http:response status="404">

  <http:header name="Content-Language" value="el"/>

  <http:header name="Content-Type" value="application/json;

charset=utf-8"/>

...

</http:response>

</rest:response>

};

declare

%rest:path("/api/abbott-smith/index")

%rest:GET

%rest:produces("application/json")

function as:index()

{

as:json-response-headers(),

array { $as:abbott-smith/*:entry ! @lemma ! string() }

! serialize(., map {'method' : 'json'})

};

Jonathan

[1] https://docs.basex.org/wiki/RESTXQ#Custom_Response

On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 11:29 PM Kristian Kankainen <

kristian@keeleleek.ee> wrote:

...

...

Hi Jonathan,

Have you tried setting the media-type or method parameters to

application/json instead of only the produces parameter, as explained here [1].

...

...

[1] https://docs.basex.org/wiki/REST#Content_Type

Best regards, Kristian Kankainen

On 11. Nov 2021, at 02:32, Jonathan Robie jonathan.robie@gmail.com

wrote:

...

...

Using RESTXQ in an application for the first time. I expected this

function to have the MIME type application/json:

...

...

declare %rest:path("/api/abbott-smith/index") %rest:GET %rest:produces("application/json") function as:index() { array { $as:abbott-smith/*:entry ! @lemma ! string() } ! serialize(., map {'method' : 'json'}) };

But both POSTMAN and WADL give me application/xml as the mime type:

<wadl:resource path="/api/abbott-smith/index"> <wadl:method name="GET"> wadl:request/ wadl:response <wadl:representation mediaType="application/xml"/> </wadl:response> </wadl:method> </wadl:resource>

What am I doing wrong?

Jonathan