Hi,
the REST-API ist designed to either automatically expose standard OFBiz
services through the export configuration or configure an API through
the special rest configuration (also using services underneath). It is
automatically reading body or url parameters, providing them to the
underlying service and returns the service results in a structured
format which is currently only JSON.
As Carsten mentioned, for a REST API it is common to have structured
input/output like JSON or the less used XML format. The REST-API plugin
currently supports JSON. We are working on enhancing the plugin (see
[1]) but I don't expect to have it support HTML.
If you want to return HTML, you can just go with the standard way of
http requests, getting data and rendering through the Freemarker
template engine.
I agree with Carsten, it sounds like you should use the REST-API as-is
and render the JSON results using some templating in your consuming client.
Best regards,
Michael Brohl
ecomify GmbH - www.ecomify.de
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11328
Am 19.02.22 um 07:36 schrieb Carsten Schinzer:
Hi again,
I wonder why a REST API Service would be expected to return HTML. Isn’t the
client of the REST API responsible to render the returned JSON?
If you would expect XML for example, ok. But HTML? Hum.
Maybe it is worth to read the Wikipedia article on REST API and understand
that your idea rather counters its basic idea of separating concerns.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer
You might want to review your “scenario” and consider a HTML rendering step
on your side after retrieving the relevant data from the API?
Warm regards
Carsten
Altafhusen Makandar <[email protected]> schrieb am Fr. 18. Feb. 2022
um 11:06:
Thank you for your response. This is a generic question related to the
request and response object type in ofbiz rest API. In my understanding,
the rest API currently supports the request and response object type as
JSON. I've scenario where I want to return a HTML data and not JSON object.
Similarly, there may be other type of object that I may receive or return.
So I wanted to check if the feature to receive or return other types other
than JSON is available. If it's available then a small code snippet of it's
usage would be helpful to me. It would be great if I get some information
on this. Thank you.
On Fri, Feb 18, 2022, 09:40 Carsten Schinzer <
[email protected]>
wrote:
Hello,
I am not really sure, your question is clear to everybody. I would
wonder:
Is this a generic question?
I ask, because "application/json" indicates that a structured content
with
key-value pairs (potentially matching a given schema) will be returned
while the other content types you are asking for are (content-wise) not
structured in that sense: text/html, text/plain, multipart/*.
Are you looking for something concrete here?
Maybe it helps to describe your use case a bit more.
Warm regards
Carsten
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Am Do., 17. Feb. 2022 um 22:55 Uhr schrieb Altafhusen Makandar <
[email protected]>:
Can someone please provide some information on this?
On Thu, Feb 17, 2022, 10:43 Altafhusen Makandar <
[email protected]
wrote:
Hi,
I am using the rest API feature of the ofbiz and I found the
"application/json".as the content-type. Do we have a feature for
other
content types like text/html, text/plain, multipart/* and so on?
Regards,
Altaf.
