[jira] [Commented] (COUCHDB-1175) Improve content type negotiation for couchdb JSON responses

["James Howe (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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James Howe commented on COUCHDB-1175:
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Just FYI, the JSONView Firefox extension gives you (optionally) an Accept of:
    text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8,application/json

I would guess many people would have it, as it lets you use Couch APIs directly without struggling to match braces and quotes.

> Improve content type negotiation for couchdb JSON responses
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: COUCHDB-1175
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1175
>             Project: CouchDB
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 1.0.2
>            Reporter: Robert Newson
>            Assignee: Robert Newson
>            Priority: Blocker
>             Fix For: 1.1.1, 1.2
>
>
> Currently we ignore qvalues when negotiation between 'application/json' and 'text/plain' when returning JSON responses.
> Specifically, we test directly for 'application/json' or 'text/plain' in the Accept header. Different branches have different bugs, though. Trunk returns 'application/json' if 'application/json' is present at all, even if it's less preferred than 'text/plain' when qvalues are accounted for.
> We should follow the standard.

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