[infinispan-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (ISPN-11968) Deprecate application/octet-stream encoding parameter in REST API

[Dan Berindei (Jira)]

Dan Berindei created ISPN-11968:
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             Summary: Deprecate application/octet-stream encoding parameter in REST API
                 Key: ISPN-11968
                 URL: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/ISPN-11968
             Project: Infinispan
          Issue Type: Task
          Components: REST
    Affects Versions: 11.0.0.CR1
            Reporter: Dan Berindei
             Fix For: 12.0.0.Final


The REST API allows a client to encode {{application/octet-stream}} keys and values either in BASE64 or in an ad-hoc {{hex}} format, depending on the value of the {{encoding}} parameter.

REST, being based on HTTP, offers a more natural encoding of {{application/octet-stream}}:
* In the URI, the keys should be [percent-encoded|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding]
* Even when listing the keys in the cache, and the keys appear in the body, it might be a good idea to list the keys as relative URIs (therefore percent-encoded)
* The values only appear in the request/response body, so they should not be encoded at all




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