[aerogear-dev] Sender REST endpoint returns text/plain

[Matthias Wessendorf]

sorry accepted is 202, not 201

On Wednesday, April 29, 2015, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org> wrote:

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> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 5:50 PM, Lukáš Fryč <lukas.fryc at gmail.com
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>> Hey guys,
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>> one issues Tadeas identified during testing sender endpoint via Java
>> Sender lib is connected to this quiet change in the REST response from REST
>> Sender endpoint (we added text/plain response specification):
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>> https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-unifiedpush-server/blob/master/jaxrs/src/main/java/org/jboss/aerogear/unifiedpush/rest/sender/PushNotificationSenderEndpoint.java#L107
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>> As we were always responding with "Job submitted", admin-ui client
>> started to complain about the response not being JSON. So obvious fix was
>> change that to text/plain, right?
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>> Not really.. some clients like Java Sender lib already expects
>> application/json and JAX-RS then refuses these requests:
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>> https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-unifiedpush-java-client/blob/master/src/main/java/org/jboss/aerogear/unifiedpush/http/HttpClient.java#L82
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>> The question is, what should be the correct response?
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>> There are many options, I would be perfectly fine with 204 No Content
>> reply,
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> 201/accept is the way to go - since the server accepts a job, for further
> processing.
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> HOWEVER, I am fine w/ skipping the content "jib submitted" on the beta.1
> release
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>> but JSON might be more appropriate for future extensions, we may want to
>> return e.g. PushMessageInformation#id or something else as part of the
>> response.
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>> So, wouldn't be application/json more appropriate than text/plain? We may
>> send empty body now {}.
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>> Is this something we want to address for Alpha? Or should we release
>> fixed Java Sender lib?
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> if needed, we need an update of the sender lib - I think due to the new
> format for sending pushes, we anyways need a 1.1.0-alpha.n release of that
> lib. Perhaps we can have one after the server is out, Sebi?
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>> Cheers,
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>> ~ Lukas
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