[jira] [Assigned] (FREEMARKER-1) Option to not to overwrite response ContentType in FreemarkerServlet

["Daniel Dekany (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FREEMARKER-1?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Daniel Dekany reassigned FREEMARKER-1:
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    Assignee: Daniel Dekany

> Option to not to overwrite response ContentType in FreemarkerServlet
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>                 Key: FREEMARKER-1
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FREEMARKER-1
>             Project: Apache Freemarker
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Woonsan Ko
>            Assignee: Daniel Dekany
>            Priority: Minor
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> FreemarkerServlet doesn't have to set response ContentType by default. Especially when a controller in an MVC framework sets the response ContentType, it's better to not set the response ContentType again by the default ContentType setting in FreemarkerServlet according to servlet specification (SRV.5.2 and SRV.14.2.22.1):
> {quote}
> Servlet programmers are responsible for ensuring that the Content-Type header is appropriately set in the response object for the content the servlet is generating. The HTTP 1.1 specification does not require that this header be set in an HTTP response. Servlet containers must not set a default content type when the servlet programmer does not set the type.
> {quote}
> {quote}
> ServletResponse#getContentType() should "Returns the content type used for the MIME body sent in this response. The content type proper must have been specified using setContentType(String) before the response is committed. If no content type has been specified, this method returns null. If a content type has been specified and a character encoding has been explicitly or implicitly specified as described in getCharacterEncoding() , the charset parameter is included in the string returned. If no character encoding has been specified, the charset parameter is omitted.
> Returns: a String specifying the content type, for example, text/html; charset=UTF-8, or null
> Since: 2.4
> {quote}
> So, optionally, if #getContentType() returns null, then FreemarkerServlet can detect that the Content-Type was never set before.
> Actually, frameworks or containers don't have to set Content-Type if programmers don't. However, I think setting Content-Type header in the framework level (freemarker servlet in this case) to a reasonable default value seems fine.
> Daniels's remarks/suggestions on this in the old ML:
> {quote}
> The contentType matter... thanks for looking after these! So then, FreemarkerServlet surely should set the HttpServletResponse contentType when it's still null. OTOH there should be an option to only set it then (if it's not null), not always as it happens now. So then the "ContetType" init-param remains as is, and we add a new init-param, "OverrideResponseContentType" (better name?), whose default is true for backward compatibility, but this default can be changed to false by extending FreemarkerServlet. WDYT?
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