[jboss-remoting-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Created: (JBREM-1145) HTTPUnMarshaller shouldn't use the value of content-type to determine the type of an object

[Ron Sigal (JIRA)]

HTTPUnMarshaller shouldn't use the value of content-type to determine the type of an object
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                 Key: JBREM-1145
                 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBREM-1145
             Project: JBoss Remoting
          Issue Type: Bug
      Security Level: Public (Everyone can see)
    Affects Versions: 2.2.3, 2.5.1 (Flounder)
            Reporter: Ron Sigal
            Assignee: Ron Sigal
             Fix For: 2.5.2 (Flounder), 2.2.3.SP1


org.jboss.remoting.marshal.http.HTTPMarshaller and HTTPUnMarshaller treat Strings as a special case, to avoid the expense of serialization.  However, HTTPUnMarshaller is using the metadata value of content-type to determine if an object is a string or not, and. as of  JBREM-653 "allow user to set content-type for http responses", that doesn't work.  The problem is that the ServerInvocationHandler can set the content-type to, say, text/html, but CoyoteInvoker wraps the result in and InvocationResponse, which gets serialized.  On the other side, HTTPUnMarshaller sees "text/html" and tries to read the serialized InvocationResponse as a string.

One solution would be for Remoting to use its own metadata key, say "remoting-type" for the purposes of marshaling and unmarshaling.

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